[lbo-talk] Minority Report (was Southern vs. Northern violence)

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Joseph Catron" <jncatron at gmail.com>
>
> > On Thursday 10 May 2007 11:33, ravi wrote:
> >
> > > Someone mentioned that the racism in the North is polite while it is
> > > open in the South.
>
>Growing up, I always heard that Southern whites disliked their black
>neighbors as a group, but liked them as individuals, while Northern
>whites did the opposite.  Nothing I've seen in either region has given
>me any cause to doubt it.

I must say white Southerners certainly have an impressive record of 
*lynching* their black neighbors as individuals.  Quite a display of 
Southern hospitality on this table (link below).  I note that my home state 
of Massachusetts does not appear to have lynched anyone at all.  Well, 
that's the frosty North for you:  They may not be quick to give you a 
"Howdy!" but they're not quick to dangle you by the neck from a tree, 
either.

<http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html>

Carl

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