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To: koan who wrote (191603)	6/14/2012 10:15:54 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543820

I grew up in a variant of that stuff, friend, in central Texas. I saw it and knew it up close. I was, also, deeply involved in the civil rights movement of the late 50s and early 60s. As for abusive racially based behavior, you could find that throughout the country. I was in Chicago when Martin Luther King marched through Dick Daley's neighborhood with rumors rampant that he would be killed. Moreover, the kind of stories you are telling yourself were more dominant in some sections of the south than others. You were much more likely to find them in Mississippi and Alabama and southern Georgia, than in many sections of Tennessee and North Carolina. More likely in east Texas than in the larger burbs of central Texas. And so on. Well, the more I think about it, I've read stuff that indicates southern Indiana was worse than portions of Tennessee. Tennessee, for instance was the location of the Highlander Folk School, which was a training ground for civil rights workers heading into Mississippi and Alabama. It's easy to take the worst examples of a section of the country and then over generalize to the entire population of the section.