When you take a look at the landscape today, there will be those who suggest that the idea of just intermingling was the focus far too often and too much in terms of the push for integration, and that we didn't put into the equation the idea of white flight and the inability to force it to happen.

NPR: De Facto School Segregation Growing, Study Says

Add to the equation the rift between black and white and one cannot help feeling that politicians are avoiding young people, because they do not know how to woo them.

BBC: Young turn their back on politics

Most in need of instruction is a new lower class, perhaps a fifth of the white population (Mr Murray excludes blacks and Latinos, simplifying his thesis by taking race out of the equation), whose plight forms the next part of his book.

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