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I think that story is most tragically illustrated by the aftermath of the Civil War.
Reconstruction came to a halt because we drew a false divide between political equality
for African-Americans and social equality for African-Americans. We labored under the
belief; perhaps it was specious. Perhaps it was hypocritical. Perhaps it was strategic. We
don’t know all the story there, but, the belief that somehow you could accord people
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formal political rights as citizens, and somehow their social subordination would not
interfere with the affected exercise of those rights.
We cannot divide off different forms of participation from each other and expect genuine
equality, liberty, dignity, and membership. Today’s immigrants face, in some ways, the
mirror of the aftermath of the Civil War and the false distinction between political
equality and social integration. Today there is an assumption that many immigrants will
“naturally assimilate.” That is to say, become socially and economically integrated, even
as their rates of political mobilization remain deeply depressed. And I think that there is a
profoundly important question for us. And that is, ‘can you actually, socially and
economically, integrate a population that is politically, severely underrepresented?’
In California the story is particularly stark because of the high proportion of immigrants
in our population.
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