Jim, >RE:"I have observed a lot more prejudice up here in the short time I have lived in New England than I did in a decade and a half in Texas."
>>In what way?
Of course, I have an answer that relates to sports. The Red Sox were the last major league team to bring on a black player, and they didn't look very hard as it was Pumpsie Green. The Celtics, with their 8 of 9 world titles in the Russell, Sam Jones and KC Jones (and also Cousy, Havlicek, Ramsey) rarely sold out the garden. The Bruins, mediocre in that before Bobby Orr period, always did. Back to the Celtics, in the Bird era, you couldn't touch a seat. Sports is just a piece of it, and I can't explain the New England prejudice in an overall fashion, but GV is right.
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