Icono Clast wrote:
> 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.
>
One thing to remember is that most racism is about folks who you do not
know. Members of the group who you do know are always different. In
the south there was always more cross racial contact. The north was
more separate.
> 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. |