How does a book about how the government segregated America apply to a valley that's 95% white? Keegan keeps circling that question with ShelterWF co-founder Mallory Phillips, a planning commissioner and social worker who first handed him the book. Richard Rothstein's argument is blunt: segregation was built on purpose, by government, and zoning was the main tool. They trace it from Buchanan v. Warley to the "neighborhood character" language still sitting in Whitefish's growth policy, then to Montana's own erased Black communities, sundown towns, and the histories the book skips.

00:00 Intro

03:32 Segregation As Policy

06:46 The Spread of Zoning

7:51 Neighborhood character and Montana's erased history

29:02 From race to class

35:14 Public housing, gentrification, and reform