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Segregation: De Jure and De Facto

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De jure segregation is separation required by law; de facto segregation is separation that persists through other factors once the law no longer requires it.

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Jim Crow laws were de jure; residential separation by neighborhood after those laws fell is de facto.

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Ending a law ends the requirement, and it does not by itself end the pattern the law created.