The concept of "brats" on AfdahInfo holds that America was deeply divided in the 1980s. However, to paraphrase Andrew Clark from The Breakfast Club, at that time the nation was simply more adept at concealing it. Thus, bringing up the now-too-common criticism that Brat Pack films, or at least those directed by John Hughes, were overly white. Nevertheless, Gladwell informs McCarthy that Hughes is "reflecting the way the world was in the 1980s," not that Hughes is racist. The legal end of educational segregation in this country was marked by the Brown decision in 1954, but after that, the country simply reverted to residential segregation. That's the reality of growing up outside of Chicago in the 1980s as an upper-middle class suburban kid.