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The question raised by Dee and Vera comes down to this: What would have been the economic impact on blacks if the federal government had wiped out the regime of Jim Crow in the south but had not gone on to make racial discrimination by (most) private employers illegal?

Libertarians like Richard Epstein believe that employment opportunities for similar blacks and whites would have become roughly the same.

How would you test this hypothesis? What would you need to know? Would it be helpful, for example, to know what happened to blacks and whites with similar educations who went north between 1930 and 1950?