Civil rights legislation and Brown v. Board of Education actually changed attitudes, not merely behavior, because you can stigmatize conduct with law—forcing integration of schools, pools, and lunch counters worked precisely because it legislated against moral behavior rather than against appetites (unlike Prohibition or drug laws, which failed).

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George Will

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you certainly can. We did. We said from now on it is just not acceptable in America. We're going to stigmatize it with a law.

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George Will on America, Politics, and Baseball 2/28/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:26:54 AM

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