The issue cutting across every aspect of American politics today is whether — and how — the nation can survive as a multiracial democracy.
One key question is what the political impact has been of the decades-long quest to integrate America’s schools.
A study published last year, “The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity,” examined how “the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, an event that led to large changes in school racial composition,” affected the partisanship of students as adults. CONTINUED
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times