Last weekend, the local left pretended it was 1954 on questions of racial balance in school. My Purple Wisconsin colleague Jim Rowen chose to genuflect before a time honored relic of the American left – the so called “iron ring” thrown around Milwaukee in the 1950s.
The “iron ring” amounted to this. The state prevented the city from forcing proximate local communities from joining the city against their will. In this, it did anticipate much of our current controversy over regionalism. Advocates of the city seem to believe that support for the city means forcing others to pay for whatever stupidity city politicians want to promote. It’s never going to happen.
Via More reflections on Brown and the “Iron Ring” @ Shark and Shepherd.