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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by infosample on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:28PM (#11511907)
I'm not sure citation is needed to prove the origin and consequences of segregation. Black people could not live in white neighborhoods, black people could not go to school with white people until 1960.

Whether classist, racist, or coincidence, the results are obvious.

Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by tzs on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:43PM (#11511952)
> I'm not sure citation is needed to prove the origin and consequences of segregation

And I didn't ask for one. I want one on the origin of school districts. As you noted, neighborhoods were segregated. As a consequence of that, everything local was de facto segregated, but that doesn't mean you can infer that everything local has a racist origin.

For instance, since neighborhoods were segregated a neighborhood's sewers were generally only available to one race. Do you conclude that public sanitation has racist origins?

Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by infosample on Saturday April 16, 2016 @07:05PM (#11512711)
The sewer system and fire department were vastly inferior in the segregated neighborhood of Five Points in Denver, CO. Source: http://www.nolegacylost.com

I'm surprised segregated/poorer neighborhoods having worse services is up for debate.

Segregation had racist origins. Segregation was by race. But I concede, not everything local has a racist origin, obviously.