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Texas? The place where anybody can build a house in a flood plain and then expect the government to bail them out when the river rises? The place where currently a blazing chemical fire is allowed to burn for days and neighbors (to a chemical plant?) are told to stay indoors until it burns itself out? Doesn't sound like they are doing fine.

/s/black/poor

Zoning regulations are a tool of civic planning. The fact that racist civic planners use them to enact racist zoning regulations does not mean that zoning regulations in and of themselves are racist or always end up being racist.

There is tons of zoning in Texas; I think you're thinking of Houston.