Race far from dead as major issue, the South far from new

Recent Supreme Court décisions occasioned the following excellent contributing editorials from liberals in today’s “New York Times.” Thomas Edsall on the marginalization of blacks in the South via gerrymandering and “bleaching.” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/the-decline-of-black-power-in-the-south/ Linda Greenhouse on Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s dissent in Fisher vs. University of Texas: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/the-cost-of-compromise/?hp All of this gives the lie, in my opinion, […]