Segregation became the assumed natural norm while integration seemed unnatural

Evidence

Implicit in this model of racial americanization thus is a set of barely stated assumptions, what Slavoj yizek in a different context might call its circle of presuppositions. First, homogenized apartness is taken as the deracialized norm, the assumed, the natural, the given. Integration, or at least desegregation, comes over as unnatural, literally absurd and irrational in the prevailing order of things, requiring intervention by the state at the cost of individual liberty (the freedom to choose where one lives or is educated, who one hires or works with, where one hangs out, worships or may be laid to rest). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregation yields real psychological safety benefits that complicate any push to integrate — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104; De facto segregation was often de jure in effect, hidden by self-deception; Residential segregation was deliberately constructed, not natural or market-driven — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 340 (+2 more)