Last week, California voters passed an initiative to ban preferential treatment for women and minorities in state programs. Under Proposition 209, state agencies have been ordered to end all quotas or set-asides. The vote in California has energized opponents of affirmative action in other states, where they hope to dismantle a policy that that they have long regarded as dicriminatory against men and whites. But before the anti-bias pendulum swings across the country, California's civil rights initative faces a slew of legal challeges before the new law can be put into practice. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.
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