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Jim Crow wasn't a product of the market. Jim Crow was a product of the state. Jim Crow was a series of LAWS.

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So, if we removed Jim Crow laws from 1950 Alabama and did nothing else, the South would integrate?

How long do you think that'd take? Longer than ~25 years (one generation)?

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Who knows? Maybe never.

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People "roll their eyes" because you're jumping straight to edge case scenarios to justify rules that are proposed for non-edge-case scenarios.

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What you want is an edge case scenario.

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So you want to come up with rules to cover situations where there's only one canned-air vendor on mars AND there's been a catastrophic atmospheric failure, and you want to put that rule in place all the time, even if there is more than one air vendor and there's no catastrophic atmospheric failure. Yeah, I can't imagine why anyone would roll their eyes at you.

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No, the difference is quite significant. The state doesn't own the land upon which it imposes its rules. The racist restaurant owner does.

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And? Where's the justification for "complete freedom" in that statement? If a large majority of white men in Alabama are racist, they're within their complete, absolute authority to get the blacks to move?

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Who is forcing anyone to move?