you got cause and effect wrong. desegregation is not the cause. racism is. it takes a lot more than laws to root out racism.
I think it’s clear that the reason desegration was the starting point is racism.
yes, but your wording made it sound like as we should simply have kept segregation and also women out of social life. you can see where not ending segregation would have lead to in south africa. i am sure in the US it would have lead to another civil war. so if we want to fix community life, we need to fix racism.
This reminds me of a tweet I saw in 2023, during the height of the Floyd Riots, that has since unfortunately been deleted, that said approximately that suburbanisation was a long term bet on the inability of the US State to keep order in urban areas. Basically, once a generation (last one before the Floyd riots were the Rodney King riots) the US has massive riots, everyone learns of remembers that if you don’t live in walking distance of an urban centre you’re safe from having your house burned down by a mob and after that there’s a durable uptick in desire for suburban rather than urban property.