[RobbyS]

Good grief. Even without legal segregation, the blacks were always given the short end of the stick in the North. In Philadelphia, they couldn’t get a job driving a bus.

[chesley]

Back in the day the word was,”Southerners don't care how close they get, as long as they don't get too high. Yankees don't care how high they get, as long as they don't get too close”.

There was a lot of truth to that. I grew up in a middle class neighborhood. The next block over was black. the houses were unpainted shotgun houses. Yet we never had any trouble that I can recollect.

Don't know how the next block over felt about it, though.