Quick forceful arguments and history showing that residential segregation in this country is the direct product of unconstitutional policy at the federal, state, and local level. Focuses on the 20s-50s and on California and the Midwest, to uncomfortably challenge anyone's idea that today's segregation is primarily due to private choices by individuals. From FHA mortgage redlining to public housing authority siting and policy to IRS and regulatory blindness to discriminatory practices and organizations to local zoning and police-condoned violence. And that these institutions continued and refined these practices even as courts began to recognize their unconstitutionally discriminatory effect and intent. The American state's direct role in creating long-lasting segregation and the damages today to black wealth and social mobility due to these policies suggests that state remediation is justified and possible, though the author acknowledges probably not in our current political situation.