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To: stsimon who wrote (414257)	8/5/2019 10:59:18 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541912

There certainly is some truth in that, but it is also true that that is too broad a brush to paint the South with. It is changing, but the change is slow and difficult. More people who are not supremacists have moved south and black people have become more educated and wealthier on the whole and this breeds some resentment among some of the unreconstructed white folks. They are definitely a minority now, but the are a "solid" minority, they vote and they are very stubborn. >>it is my belief that the folks in the former Confederate states and a few others have never given up their goal of white supremacy

To: stsimon who wrote (414257)	8/5/2019 3:29:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541912

Well, it is my belief that the folks in the former Confederate states and a few others have never given up their goal of white supremacy, they are just more comfortable taking their sheets off with Chump in the White House and a packed Supreme Court. While there is more than a little truth in what you say, it's an overstatement. Two points. The first is that there is, as I'm certain you know, variation across "the South". Georgia, for instance, and North Carolina, just to take two examples, are not as deeply buried in all this as Alabama and Mississippi. Second, there are some hopeful winds of changes blowing around. Suburban areas are not quite as marked by the old southern mentality. And these areas are growing. And, in some states, the black population is getting better organized and increasing their political participation. Again, Georgia leaps to mind.