Les Andrews

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Like municipal transit companies, railroad managements in the South opposed the racial segregation laws, in their own self-interest, even if their racial views might have been no different from those of politicians who passed such laws. But the incentives to which the politicians responded were votes—that is, white votes—while the incentives to which railroad owners and managers responded were financial, and money was the same, regardless of the racial source.
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Thomas Sowell
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