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This one might be harder than it sounds, because the end of WWII led to both the baby boom generation and rising expectations among African-American citizens who had served even in segregated units or even more so as replacement soldiers on a de-segregated basis that they would at long last finally be accorded ordinary status as regular first-class citizens. Plus in the post-war period, the U.S. was more prominently on the world stage and continued obvious de jure segregation in the American south hurt the case which national leaders wanted to make that ours was a better system than that of the Soviet Union.
I’m trying to avoid the politics of resentment of the 1968 election in which George Wallace got 13% of the popular vote and Richard Nixon ran his “southern strategy.”
Bonus points if what looks like a clearly positive change also leads to an unexpected and tricky-to-manage problem.