Losing legal backing forced prejudice itself to change form

Evidence

As profound as these changes were, they did not eliminate all discrimination or de facto segregation. But losing the active support of the political and legal systems ultimately forced changes in the nature of prejudice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2165

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core ‘old-fashioned to modern racism’ shift argument — parallels the transition to covert/ambivalent racism often examined in later social psychology and in the reader’s law-and-social-norms reading.