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Originally Posted by Locobot
I suggest you research some basic U.S. history to discover that the 14th amendment was passed in 1868 and was actually the reactionary impetus behind Jim Crow legislation.
Dude, I seriously am. Segregation still exists in every aspect of American society untouched by interstate commerce: churches, country clubs, private schools, etc.
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I'd suggest that I probably know more about the origins and early implementation of the 14th Amendment than you do. At first, it worked. Later, it was effectively neutered in an effort to appease Southern Whites. A choice had to be made....return minorities to serf-like status, or fight a long-term guerrilla war between the Freedman's Bureau et al and the Klan.
Jim Crow would have ended at the approximately the same time regardless of which part of the Constitution it was done under. Why? Because the will to change it was there. And if you truly understood the impact of Wickard, you'd understand that churches, country clubs, and private schools ALL would have fallen under the ICC in a pre-Lopez environment.