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To: tejek who wrote (579432)8/4/2010 6:58:51 AM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 1576588
 
It was a waste but southern governments mandated much of that. As for banks, refusing to make profitable loans leaves open opportunities for competitors. Now you could argue lending wasn't competitive enough once, I suppose.

At any way, when you look up redlining, you find that the federal government under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the great liberal, began it.