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'''Segregation''' means to separate groups of people based on race or cultural differancesdifferences. Segregation can be forced or self-imposed.
In the southern [[United States]], the policy was created by state governments at the end of [[Reconstruction]] in 1876 and the reemergence of [[Democratic partyDemocrat Party]] control of Southern state legislatures. The Democratic party Democrat Party has been known as the party of segregation ever since.
[[Woodrow Wilson]], the second Democrat president after the [[Civil War]], introduced segregation into the United States government [[Civil service system|Civil Service]], requiring separate bathrooms and cafaterias cafeterias in federal buildings and installations throughout the land, including Northern and Western states which had fought for the Union and existed without laws requiring segregation of the races. US [[military]] training and units also were segregated.
Segregation was allowed in public schools by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896), but then reversed after 20 years of Democrat control of both Houses of Congress and the presidency when [[President Eisenhower]] appointed former California Republican Gov. [[Earl Warren]] as Chief JusiiceJustice. The [[Warren Court]] ordered school desegregationin desegregation in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] (1954). As a reaction in the 1960s, Democrats "wanted policies that privileged whites."<ref>[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp The Myth of the Racist Republicans]</ref>
In addition to the public schools, segregation existed in the United States military up until 1947. In the Democratic Democrat-controlled [[The South|South]] and [[federal government]] it existed in public accommodations like restrooms, drinking fountains, cafateriascafeterias, movie theaters, buses, trains , sports arenas and hotels before the federal government reversed itself and banned it with the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].
[[Ann Coulter]] wrote, "There was more desegregation of American public schools in Nixon's first term than in any historical period before or since." [http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-07-31.html#read_more]
==See also==
* [[Segregated college housing]]* [[Jim Crow]], for a history in the U.S.United States* [[Separate Development#Apartheid ]], for a similar history in [[South Africa|Apartheid]]*[[Democratic party]]*[[Joseph R. Biden]]
==References==
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[[Category:The SouthLiberal Traits]]
[[Category:Civil Rights]]
