No Sweet Home, Alabama - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The contagion of Alabama’s shame became apparent in April, during the oral argument before the Supreme Court on Arizona’s immigration legislation, the test case for several similar state laws aimed primarily at Hispanics. All have been substantially blocked by federal courts, except Alabama’s, most of which went into effect last fall, catastrophically achieving the goal Arizona calls “attrition through enforcement” — also known as “self-deportation.”
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I realized how dismayingly reliable Alabama remained as the country’s moral X-ray, exposing the broken places.
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If Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement, can retool Jim Crow as Juan Crow, what have we learned?
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