When busing was introduced in the early 1970s to counteract the effects of racially defined residential patterns, whites built private schools in the suburbs or fled the county altogether. In 1971, the segregationist businessman William F. Rector announced the construction of the private Pulaski Academy in the western suburbs of the city for those, he said, who "don't like busing." Pulaski was the first school established after the "Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education" decision (1971). Rector said, "I even hope we'll be allowed to play "Dixie" if we want to without having a riot about it."