what could be some reasons that de facto segregation still exists today?
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One of the simpler reasons is personal choice. The majority of people prefer to associate with people that are similar to them. This is basic group dynamics. We gravitate toward people with whom we have common interests.
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Imperialism has been around since the beginning of time. And will continue as long as one nation is more powerful than its neighbors. \n   The reason? Resources, influence, human nature? Hate?
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Tracks divide neighborhoods. Often the other side of the tracks meant the poor or"bad" neighborhood. Americans arn't as much racist as they are classist.
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Not an American one that's for sure.  Segregation started with slavery a very long time ago in Africa (of all places ... I know ... funny isn't it).  Most people think slavery and segregation started in America.  Goes to show how ignorant (as in not smart on a subject ... not meant to offend any one person, race, religeon, or creed) some people are.\n\nMan, how about those 10 bonus points partner????
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Segregation in education meant separating black and white schoolchildren from one another, forcing them to attend black-or white-only schools. A national issue, segregation was most prominent in the South, where it was enforced by law and where it fit into a broader pattern of social segregation and political oppression of African Americans known as Jim Crow. The Jim Crow school system was patently unfair to the educational aspirations of millions of southern blacks. In many cases no institution of high training would accept black students; at the primary and secondary levels, white school boards badly underfunded black-only schools, failing to provide adequate facilities, textbooks and instructional materials, or qualified teachers. In 1949, for example, Clarendon County, South Carolina, spent $179 on each white child enrolled in school but only $43 on each black student. While public education was generally in dismal...\n\nSee the whole article at http://history.enotes.com/1940-education-american-decades/segregation-schools
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A.)Fewer Jobs-though this will become less and less of an issue as people commute long distances to work nowadays, and the knock-on acceptance is becoming more acute (remember the %of England's population which is non-white has gone from around 1% in the 1940s to around 6% today.\nB.)Recent immigrants tend to establish themselves where previous immigrants from the same place went, which is generally the cities (due to cheaper housing, more services, and more jobs).\nC.)Occasionally ethnic minorities are driven out of rural areas through intimidation (excrement through letterboxes, verbal abuse, etc.) or simple neglect from established communities\nD.)Ethnic minorities often have cultural practices or interests which are more difficult to pursue in rural areas than urban areas.
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yes we are still living in a savage time and the Palestine question becomes a part of what i would call a pain in the arse how can a people be pushed into area's outside places they have settled in 4.000 years ago it would be the same to say i came from France in 1066 to Britain.i am so sorry for the lives lost and the little children but it seems its time for people to start looking at people not as creed or colour but as a united race and i would love to see it before i die.xmole.uk.
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Racism is too easy an answer, although it may be the case some of the time.  More likely, due to historical racism and many other factors, black men in the south generally do not have as good a credit rating, do not have as good personal or business references, and are not a part of the "old boy" (i.e., old white boy) network.  That's not the same as current racism, and I would bet that there are banks and other lenders that are smart enough to actively seek out black business, in order to expand their customer range.  After all, there are getting to be more well-educated, highly skilled blacks in the middle class and above in America, probably including Louisiana.  They have good jobs and want to keep them, and are at least as respectible and ambitious as their white counterparts.  More, often, because they are responding to quite a few years of affirmative action, emphasis on education, and the influence of leaders like MLK to have self-respect and pride in their heritage; all to the good for their economic well-being.  Then, too, there are probably at least a few good black-run banks and credit unions in every state, even in Louisiana.
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A few reasons:\n\n1.  1896 the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was legal so long as the facilities were "equal."\n\n2.  Lynchings were becoming more and more common at an alarming rate during this time period (until Ida B. Wells began her crusade to end lynchings.)\n\n3.  Jim Crow laws were being passed throughout the South in which all facilities were segregated for blacks and whites (schools, churches, mortuaries, cemetaries, swimming pools, entrances, movie theaters, etc...)\n\n4.  The second rise of the Ku Klux Klan began in 1915 and the Klan grew to 4 million members by the mid-1920s.\n\n5.  W.E.B. DuBois organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1906, thus giving a voice to address the wrongs leveled against African-Americans at this time\n\n\nThese are some valid reasons for focusing on racism during these years.
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there is no totall freedom cause:\ninternational socity is baised  on   money, usefulness for community  and other factors which make us more and more limited,restricted and dependent ...\n\nunfortuatly that's the way it is .... and I have no answer why we shoulde live like this.it is totally ridiculous.
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It always apart of the US, what makes you think it wasn't?
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Today, we are told that exclusions and segregations are on an economic basis rather than a racial basis. That is why our schools and our nation are more segregated today than they were when the Supreme Court first acted.
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This is true of most nations. There is great diversity in India, There is in the US too. Look at Iraq. There are just three nations which are already diverse in a world which is becoming more diverse daily. I n my mind, it is important that the population of a country identify themselves as nationals of that country and participate in its culture to strengthen a sense of community. However, the thousands of years of separatism in ay given place does not allow any other nation to dismiss it, rationally. As a sovereign nation, it may be difficult to integrate the needs of all the subsets of communities, but it is impossible to say that a nation must first unite its population before we can build good relations with that nation. The stakes are so very high.
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How do you define "still alive and very huge?"  Yes, there is still a lot of prejudice around, but compared to just 50 years ago, it is NOT huge.  Instead, I'd say that there is a strong, yet hidden undercurrent of prejudice in some communities.\n\nThis too will change.  It takes more than 50 years for a culture to change that much.  With each new generation, we get further away from the "whites only" signs of the 50's.  \n\nBut I do feel there are two reasons prejudice will always be with us in one form or another.\n\nFeeling superior.\nThis was said to me (by someone who never could hold down a job or make ends meet) when I asked if he could afford the rent where he was moving.\n"What do you think? I'm not like those muchachos from the other side of the tracks who doesn't even TRY to pay their bills!"\ntranslation; I may be a loser but I'm not as a big of a loser as THOSE people!\n\nShortcut\nI takes a while to know who is honest & who isn't, who is a hard worker & who isn't, etc.\nPrejudice allows people to think they can look at someone & have a short cut to knowing those important things. \n\n\nI suspect a lot of the prejudice blacks face today isn't racism in the strict sense. It's not prejudice against the race, as much as the culture. In other words, "it's OK to be black as long as you walk, talk & act white." It's still prejudice. \n\nExample: A black with a strong black dilect will be treated very differently from one who talks "white."\n(I'm not talking about bad grammer, just different phonetics.)\n\nI think of Jeff Foxworthy's joke "People hear this accent & want to automatically deduct 20 IQ points." How many IQ points do you think get deducted from someone with a black dialect?
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De jure means by law or rule\nDe facto means by fact.\n\nDe facto segregation means that blacks still live in predominately black neighborhoods, that blacks and whites tend to go to different churches and join different clubs.  That even though it's no longer the law (de jure) that blacks and whites must be socially separated, they still are mostly socially segregated.  This is more true in some cities than others.  Probably more true in the south.  For example here in oklahoma city the bars that cater to whites have very few blacks.  the bars that cater to blacks have very few whites.  many white people don't realize there's another 'black' world that they don't visit.  Blacks are the minority and they are mostly aware that the world is predominately white.
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I agree segregate a society and it remains fractured and separated. This only further separates us rather than unites us.  America is supposed to a melting pot in which are differences are celebrated rather than criticized.  As long as people continue to look at our differences rather than our similarities, how are we to be united.
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YES! The trend in Europe and America--for the last 100 years, or so-- is toward more acceptance of differing lifestyles. I'm old enough to remember segregation. And drug use was totally non-accepted back in the 1950s.