Even today. with the population explosion and big government. the strength of this concept is revealed in many of our metropolitan areas of the North. where the parents of children in the inner cities and ghettos are demanding and obtaining a greater degree of local community control from the far off city hall and the State capitalin almost disregard of the policies and programs on the Federal Government. The United States has been called the great melting pot. But it was common knowledge. long before Professor Colemans study for the HEW. that as new waves of immigrants of differing nationalities and races reached our shores. generally those who dispersed thinly throughout already established communitiesalthough frequently confronted. at first. with considerable bigotry and prejudicefared much better and. with their children. made the transition to fullfledged Americans long before compatriots who flocked to impacted areas. or ghettos. And it was also common knowledge that benefits from their coming generally enriched the communities into which they settled. The Supreme Court. in the 1896 Plessy case. decreed that the "separate but equal" doctrine and legally segregated public schools were constitutional.
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Immigrants who disperse throughout communities fare better than those who flock to impacted areas/ghettos.