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[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Civil Rights happened.

Once it became clear to racist whites that Black Americans would have full access to the social programs that they enjoyed, they decided that they'd rather burn all those social programs to the ground before they'd share them. This is the basis of the modern Republican party, so you weren't wrong.

Incidentally, the scenario in this original post was never true for almost all black Americans.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Aren't there a lot more social programs today than there were in the period the OP refers to?

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