When I went to school in one of those states, and taught in one of those states, it was pretty obvious that the honors/AP classes most definitely were more rigorous, and that is supported by the evidence of performance of these students in tests and college success.
>but just a way to effectively continue segregation long after it had been made illegal.
Ah yes, the classrooms with an overrepresention of Jews and Asians is a White supremacist ploy.
>There was a slight complicating factor of class but even still it was very clear what was happening. The white children of farmers (who in rural areas are the upper class)
The vast, vast majority of of White farmers in these states are at or below the poverty line. They are by no means "upper class".
>the black and hispanic kids, along with most of the children of farm laborers were in the non-honors classes.
This holds true anywhere in the US, even in the darkest blue areas of NYC and SF.
>Having grown up in an environment like this I'm not so foolish as to take the leaders of those states or the general culture war right at face value.
Definitely agree here about those in the "woke" areas.
>They want segregation again and this is the closest they can get.
This is what wokeism is calling for, safe spaces and segregation for BIPOCs.
>You don't have to buy into it either.
The redder states definitely are not.