| The zoning regime that was invented in the south went to the supreme Court as a result of it being implemented in the town of Euclid Ohio. So you're right, Ohio isn't the south, but the regime that was approved by the supreme Court was invented by essentially the mayor of Atlanta. It is just a re-implementation of Jim Crowe. The guy that invented it said: > To maintain the harmonious relations between the races, care has been given to ensure adequate separation between them. He was dscribing r1 verse r2 zoning. Pretty much every municipality in America still has r1, r2, r3 zoning on the books. The guy that invented it said r1 zoning was for the white, r2 zoning was for the colored, r3 zoning was for the undecided. When I bought a house in Golden, it was in an r2 neighborhood. R1 is suburbia. It's genuinely horrifying that this travesty of a legal regime has not been ended yet, but most politically powerful white people can't be bothered to do a modicum of research, and they believe the propaganda they've been fed that says suburban neighborhoods, maintained by r1 zoning, are pleasant places to live. |