They probably don't have segregated ones. They probably just don't allow certain groups to use them at all. Can you name a country where the free market has fixed issues of discrimination?
Certainly. For much of the South in the late 1800s and the Midwest in the 1910s - 1920s, the KKK controlled State governments and local governments. I don't think it's revisionist at all. It just doesn't assume that our political history defines us completely. I understand that it's the easy way to teach history. It's nice and linear, but it ignores a lot.
In the American West, discrimination (especially against blacks) was dramatically reduced throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries before it was ever mandated.
The idea that they represented typical white thought at the time is hard to swallow because...? Please. That's a cop out. There is nothing linear about the far more supported and factual notion that racism was rampant and that jim crow laws were orchestrated to systematically implement the racism that was already innocuous. Sure, there were probably a few oddball tolerant white folks who refused to take action out of fear of reprisals, but the idea that such a mentality was commonplace and only held in check via the governmental powers that be is pure fantasy.
Today? It's been some years, but India, the last time I was there. The government's official position is that the caste system is wrong and shouldn't exist. When I was there, it certainly was in existence. Why? In my opinion, because there were broad sections of Indian society that were ignorant, superstitious, and bigoted. Sort of like a lot of the United States today. In the States, not a majority, thank goodness, but enough to elect bizarre people to office.
Where are you getting this? The West had a whole bunch of "sundown towns", which was especially ridiculous given that blacks were mostly migrating to the midwest and the northeast rather than places like Montana or Idaho. Further more, virulent racism and discrimination against, and segregation of, Chinese workers was commonplace from the get-go. The Chinese exclusion act was passed in 1882. Why? Because white people hated chinamen. your version of american history completely sucks - are you getting this crap from the Texas school board?
Ridiculous. To build on Sam's sundowner mention, here's a list of prominent known and confirmed Sundown towns by state... Washington Bellingham Brewster Brewster Chehalis Chelan Colville Kennewick Montesano Olympia Richland Seattle Shelton Tacoma Vancouver Walla Walla Oregon Ashland Astoria Coos Bay Dallas Eugene Florence Grants Pass Jacksonville La Grande Lake Oswego Lebanon McMinnville Medford Milton Monroe Oakridge Oregon City Pendleton Roseburg Salem Springfield The Dalles Tillamook Toledo California Anaheim Antioch Arcadia Arcata Arroyo Grande Azusa Bakersfield Bayshore City Bel Air Berkeley Bishop Brea Buena Park Burbank Burlingame Cerritos Chester Chico Compton Corning Costa Mesa Crescent City Culver City Del Norte County Dutch Flat East Palo Alto El Norte Escondido Eureka Fillmore Folsom Fontana Fresno Garden Grove Glendale Gold Run Grass Valley Hawthorne Hemet Hidden Hills Holy City Humboldt County Huntington Beach Indian Wells Inglewood Irvine Kernville Kingsburg La Habra La Jolla Lafayette Lincoln Lodi Lomita Lynwood Manhattan Beach Marysville Mill Valley Monterey Park Napa Nevada City Newport Beach Nicolaus Norco North Palo Alto Oildale Orange Orange County Orinda Oroville Palmdale Palos Verdes Estates Parlier Pasadena Piedmont Placerville Porterville Red Bluff Redding Redlands Redwood City Riverside Rocklin Ross San Fernando Valley San Jacinto San Jose San Juan San Juan Capistrano San Leandro San Marino San Pablo Santa Ana Santa Cruz Sawyers Bar Selma Sheridan Sonora South Gate South Pasadena Stanton Taft Tarzana Torrance Truckee Visalia Watsonville Westfield Westminster Wheatland Whittier Yorba Linda Arizona Bisbee Duncan Globe Kingman Prescott Scottsdale Sun City Youngtown Nevada General Ely Fallon Goldfield Minden-Gardnerville Unionville Utah Blanding Bluffdale Brigham City Carbon Corinne Eagle Mountain Murray Price Idaho Bonners Ferry Clark Fork Hoodoo Moscow Twin Falls Wallace Montana Choteau Glendive Lincoln County Miles City Roundup Wyoming Green River Laramie Powell Rock Springs Colorado Cedaredge Colorado Springs Durango Longmont New Mexico Aztec Bernalillo Portales Taos http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/content.php?file=sundowntowns-whitemap.html Again, those are the towns that the primary researcher into this field decided were prominent enough to put on a map. (Some of them targeted Chinese, Jews, and others as well as blacks.) If you look on Eastern states in the map, you'll find a lot there as well. No doubt many other towns fell into the same category. The West followed the same pattern as the rest of the country, including the East, with racism becoming more overt, socially enforced, and codified in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
As Deckard pointed out, India. Businesses can and sometimes do reject "untouchables", especially in more rural areas.
Interestingly, Canada had some of these towns until 1982 when they were outlawed. So the idea that the free market fixes these problems doesn't seem to have worked there.
