Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders was against 'busing' in the 1970s [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)It is interesting reading, and going through it, I was reminded of things I read before, but have since forgotten. Also, thanks for that website in general, it looks like it could be educational in a number of topics of American History. I'd use Wikipedia as the "Cliffs Notes", then dive into the course on HistoryMatters.
Clearly, white flight was going on in the 1960's, I'm not completely correct about thinking that school busing started it. But, I think the case can be made that it exacerbated the problem. Also, the Kerner Report seems to be very optimistic that the US could reverse course, had Humphrey been elected, that might well have happened. Certainly with Nixon winning, and all the voters willing to go with George Wallace, it was an aspiration that was not achievable.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden