Complicating the partisan narrative further is the fact that it is liberal cities like New York where the public schools are the most segregated, and where the educational outcomes for minority students are the worst.33 And it is cities that Democrats have ruled for decades—Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, even Atlanta—where the worst outcomes for black children and black lives persist in the form of crime and intergenerational poverty. Perhaps most damning of all, it was white liberals—those people most “woke” and most keen on prioritizing race in every discussion—whom researchers found have a
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