The Supremes are on a roll today.  In a closer vote, 5-4, the court ruled that Texas can long  no longer use federal subsidies to enforce racial discrimination.

The biggest federal housing subsidy program in Texas — which awarded $9.7 billion in tax credits from 1990 to 2011 — effectively has been reinforcing segregated housing, the U.S. Supreme Court found Thursday.

Texas gave the subsidies to developers.  Those developers insured that poor housing was built in minority neighborhoods and fancy pants housing was built in white neighborhoods.

“Much progress remains to be made in our Nation’s continuing struggle against racial isolation,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. “We must remain wary of policies that reduce homeowners to nothing more than their race.”

Damn, y’all.  It looks like we made some progress today.