do ya'll realize the US was an apartheid country prior to ~1970?

[All Along The Watchtower]

a) Before 1965 (by 1970 it was over)

Old habits take quite some time to disappear. I highly doubt that segregation immediately and universally ended right at the moment Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.

It did legally. If you're speaking culturally, everybody is an apartheid country to some extent; xenophobia, unfortunately, is a pretty universal reaction. That said, 1970 I suppose is as good a place to start as any other; it was the last year a major-party Southern candidate ran an explicitly racist campaign (Albert Watson, Republican candidate from South Carolina), and he lost. By 1970 segregation was pretty clearly a lost cause.

Segregation is still around in some parts of the South. It just isn't law.

Then it's not around. Also your signature is stupid as f**k.

lol such an Atlas post

[All Along The Watchtower]

Of course, the U.S. government was one of the South African apartheid regime's biggest supporters for a long time.