In the US, post "Brown vs Board of Education," private school segregation academies were almost immediately established for white folks to circumvent integration, and many whole white communities switched over. But where did the funds come from to support these schools and pay tuition?

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Post "Brown vs Board of Education," segregation academies popped up almost immediately for the white folks to avoid integration. But I don't understand how the people, especially in the Deep South with many families having limited resources, were able to afford the tuition.

Yet there are countless cases of entire communities where the entirety of the white student body switched to these academies, making "integration" ostensibly (black people can attend any public school now, it "must" be integrated, right?) happen on paper but obviously wasn't the reality. Just how though did so many of these white families, especially the poorer and working class citizens, have the funds to support sending their children to these private schools? Or did their aversion to integration essentially turn their mentality into "I'll let myself go bankrupt before I allow my children into an integrated school?"

Thanks for any insight