"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)
Oregon is not technically Yankee but they did supply Union troops.
Of course....blacks and whites are more honest with each other down here...no doubt...and it's not all The Cosby Show admittedly but we don't pretend to know what's best for them anymore like Yankees do but I will tell them if they are wrong and I don't pander.
I get pilloried here at times for being how I am. I straight talk blacks down here on these issues. Hell, if I don't they think I'm playing them.