[lump in the melting pot]

Yep. Reminds me of the old saw that Southern racists don’t mind black people getting close, as long as they don’t get too high (successful), while Northern racists don’t mind blacks climbing high, as long as they aren’t too close.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Black satirist Dick Gregory said that one in his act as the difference between Northern and Southern Whites.

[dfwgator]

That was the crux of Randy Newman’s song “Rednecks”

Now your northern n*****’s a negro
You see he’s got his dignity
Down here we’re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** free
Yes he’s free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he’s free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he’s free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They’re gatherin’ ‘em up from miles around
Keepin’ the n*****s down