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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (537126)	12/17/2009 2:42:02 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579259

"From where you're sitting you probably think it never ended." Well Jim, in much of South it really wasn't over until the 1970s. While I don't think it was intentional, the net effect of many policies was keeping the South in severe poverty after the Civil War. And that didn't help race relations at all. White Southerners milked a serious inferiority complex and that fueled a lot of the overt discrimination. However, with better paying jobs started to migrate to the Sun Belt in the 1960s and really accelerated in the 1970s, things changed very quickly. The battle reenactments and all of the shrines to various aspects of the old Confederacy have lost their air of dead seriousness. And that is all to the good. It isn't like all of the racial stuff is gone. But it is just a faint shadow of the way it was. And the younger someone is, the more likely is to not be an issue. The racial politics was always very schizoid. While a lot of Southerners of both races had petty stereotyped notions of the other race, there often were real friendship between individuals, even admiration. A clearer example of double-think I have never witnessed.