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Originally Posted by loquitur
host, the issue is that you are noting a correspondence and then declaring it causal. Maybe Mississippi is a backwater, so there are limited opportunities there? Maybe it's a calcified social structure because it's not economically dynamic as opposed to vice versa? Also, I suspect that in areas where there is economic dynamism in Mississippi you'll also see much less racial disparity in economic well-being.
But Mississippi isn't the whole country. In the US as a whole, race-based economic disparities are decreasing, and have been for years. I would expect they will continue to decrease for a while until they level off.
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The facts show that the most powerful positions in the fortune 500 corps.,
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http://www.mqc.com/div_rscs_usa.html
Friday November 1, 2002
Microquest Study Finds:
Good old boys' network still rules corporate boards
By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY
A new report by research firm Microquest has found a surprising lack of progress in board of director appointments for women and minorities at America's largest companies.
....Faced with tougher recruiting tasks, more companies now use corporate headhunters to conduct board searches. But headhunters are able to make minority recruiting only so much easier.
Julie Daum, who heads recruiter Spencer Stuart's board diversity practice, says companies still rank active and former CEOs as top board candidates. Accounting scandals have also made CFOs hot prospects. But there are few minority CEOs and CFOs, further limiting board openings.
"It would be easy to trot out the same old cast of characters, the high-profile women, African-Americans and Hispanics who serve on multiple boards," Daum says. "But they are boarded out, and companies are no longer interested in meeting some kind of quota."...
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and in the US senate and house are still ending up in the hands of white males to no lesser a degree than ten years ago, or 20 years ago.
There has been a concerted, official, open effort by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caging_list">national republican party organization to "cage"</a>...work to minimize, via legal and illegal means, the number of racial minority voters, documented at least since 1980. In this decade that effort proved successful enough to <a href="http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070505_resurrecting_jim_crow.html">reverse the enforcement</a> of the Voting Rights Act by the voting rights enforcement section of Civil Rights enforcement division, of the US DOJ. I have posted more than a little documentation, in other threads, to support all of thes points.
So, it a problem in the whole country. The political manipulation part of it is intentional and well organized.