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I woulda carried a pistol in the South Bronx had it been legal back when I lived there in the 80s as well and yep...because I'm 100% peckerwood.

I do carry a firearm when driving around my hometown of Jackson Mississippi which has become a veritable war zone in most parts in our new enlightened age.

Driving while white is dangerous too in places in cases you have been hiding in North Dakota.

Blacks run nearly all municipalities and black counties in Mississippi now. The bottom rung done moved up as they say.

Which is why they and politicians of all stripes who want to make hay are on these cases with good PR on their side. Justice with a TV camera following ya all around is not only noble but good for one's career.

But I can tell ya....30 years after Jim Crow has been dead and buried down here....it's a mixed bag.

Don't be looking for anybody to be trumpeting cases involving black on white crime which is endemic. No political hay to be made.

That's just how it is. Mississippi is 40% black and largely poor. This is where the realities of the Great Society rubber meets the road.

I have no answers. I just know it's in some ways better and in other ways ...much much worse....for everybody. Not to say the old ways were better but some of the old racists worst nightmares have come true. Did this happen because of Jim Crow or is it more than that? I don't know.

Anybody figure it out....give me a holler.

Unlike most Yankees in their fairly segregated worlds...lol...in Mississippi...you can segregate...and they do...black and white....mostly by choice.

BUT UNLIKE UP NORTH.....you cannot hide down here. Segregated or not....blacks and whites are gonna get to know one another apart from TV shows and football games...the good, the bad, and the uglee.

"I'm 100% peckerwood."

You might want to 'splain the term "peckerwood"
for those who may not know what it means. ;o)

"Unlike most Yankees in their fairly segregated worlds...lol...in Mississippi...you can segregate...and they do...black and white....mostly by choice.

BUT UNLIKE UP NORTH.....you cannot hide down here. Segregated or not....blacks and whites are gonna get to know one another apart from TV shows and football games...the good, the bad, and the uglee."

Oregon is not Yankee territory.
But, my daughter has had several black friends move
back to their Southern home state.
The reason for this is that, as they told her, they
"feel" the the unstated prejudice out here.
It is unsaid because it would be unPC...but it's there.
They felt like they, at least, knew where they stood,
prejudice or not, in the South.
And, having lived most of my life in the South, I agree.

On that note, I'm off to bed.
Good to see you. ;o)

I was going to comment on something you said and ask a question but I realize everyone has a right to their opinion. Besides after paying a brief visit to a similar area I'd carry a gun too. I'll only say I'm glad I didn't grow up in the South back then. That's not to take away from other folks' upbringing but that's just how I see it in light of reading about the lives of various immigrants and mixed race people. I hope no one gets offended at what I say because that's not my intention.