Regarding William McGurn’s “An Anti-Asian Proposition” (Main Street, Sept. 22): In his book “Intellectuals and Race,” Thomas Sowell describes some interesting results from California’s 1996 referendum banning racial preferences. Critics of the ban rightly feared black and Hispanic enrollment in the University of California system would drop. Mr. Sowell says: “an empirical study showed that there were ‘modest declines in black and Hispanic enrollment but an increase in black and Hispanic degrees.’” He goes on to say “there was an increase in the number of black and Hispanic students graduating from the University of California...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 27, 2020 18:11 UTC