Bernie Sanders was against 'busing' in the 1970s

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75. Hmm, I only had my own experience

in northwestern Indiana to go by. In Gary, there was a black side of town, and a white side of town (Glen Park) with a highway dividing them. Black kids went to school on their side, white kids on their side, and I went to Catholic school. It was not because of any sort of reason other than my parents' wanting to provide me with a religious-based education.

In 1964, we moved to a suburb, Merrillville, and I went to public school. We were caught up in the white flight of the time, most all the neighbor kids had learned a lot of racism from their parents. If any of it came home with me, I was quickly corrected.

In 1969, we moved to a suburb of Portland, Oregon, and while there were not many African-American families in our town, they were integrated into junior high and high school with me, although they were a tiny minority.

I was unaware of the use of buses to deliberately segregate schools.