The WHole United States is Southern

This article really clarified some questions I had after reading Bell's Brown vs. Board of Article. Thsi focuses more on facts and I enjoyed it. I found out how the South vs. North issue has impacted the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Forcing people to go to school together and live together who don't like each other might not always work. That's one of the main themes I extracted from Payne's article.

This article also clarified some things I had about how the decision affected everyone. It shows how in the South, everyone didn't think the same as where the Supreme Court was decided. Not everyone was pleased to be putting their black children in the middle of a social movement. I think that it had to happen at one point and the children in the 50s and 60s during the Civil Rights Movement got that job.

We still have a long way to go and this article claims that. Just as slavery took a long time to overcome, complete integration will as well. It obviously can take longer in some well segregated areas and it will definitely more difficult. The Brown vs. Board of Education may not have compeltely taken into account that notion. Although they passing down the law as what schools must do and get of rid, it wasn't that easy.

There still needs to be a strategic way of continuing this social change. It isn't about sterotypes and who did what. It's about everyone thinking about racial eqaulity together. No law can change how a society was directed to think for years and years. This article emphasizes that both sides to meet halfway. It can't just be somethign declared by a court or state. The attitudes have to both be there and the stats have to change. 53 percent of southern blacks agreeing with Brown vs. Board of Education in 1955 won't cut it.