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To: combjelly who wrote (568111)	5/27/2010 4:53:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577984

Everything depended on your place in society. False, at least considering the time period we are talking about (around the time of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, and the time following it.). And also not directly relevant. "The South was very hierarchical" is not a refutation of "Much of the segregation was required." The laws resulted from the attitudes, the attitudes weren't created by the laws. It works both ways, but I agree that primarily the laws resulted from the attitudes. That doesn't change the fact that much of the segregation was required by law, and the reason why racists thought it important to pass the law is that many businesses (even those run by racist whites, who cared more about their desire for profit than their racism), would and did deal with blacks on a non-segregated basis. The laws where the creatures of the racist attitudes, much more than the racism was the result of the law. But the segregation was primarily the result of the law, as was, to a great extent, the expectation that there would be segregated facilities or the total exclusion of black people.