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Old Wed Apr 12, 2006, 01:57am
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Originally Posted by ChuckElias
Here's my only question, and I ask because I honestly don't know. Has any court ever ruled that "white flight" (with or without the twist) is illegal? If there's some precedent for not allowing predominantly white schools to leave an association and form their own, then the suit may have some merit. I've never heard of a suit over "white flight" before this one. But I am obviously not a lawyer or civil rights authority.
If I have the information correct, one of the new conferences is around 60% white. It would be hard to convince anyone that the motivation for that set of schools was race when the ratio nearly matches (within 1-2%) the diversity of the greater Chicago area (based on stats from the Chicago Tribune reporting the number of households in zipcodes where the Tribune is sold.)
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