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Subject: Re: My Southern US trip Posted on: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:09:44 -0700

Bill Pittman wrote:
> "Tashi" wrote:
>> It shocked me that "white" people in the South still refer to
>> black people as "blacks"
>
> the late 1950's, and the whole region was as racist/segregated as
> you could get. That has only changed gradually since passage of
> the civil rights laws in the late 1960's.

Hatunen said:
> While Ohio was not legally segregated in the 1950s, it was
> certainly de facto segregated.

I have met more flaming racists from Ohio than any other state. Last
time I said that here, there was a discussion that I don't care to
repeat.

You might find reading "The (New!) South"
< http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/TheSouth.html > at the site at
Right in the sig worth your while.
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