[stand watie]

perhaps so, but the north NEVER DESEGREGATED, as the average northerner wanted to LOOK liberal "on civil rights", but didn't want "THEIR precious white child" to have to sit next to someone with a dark skin or different ethnic group (like ME for example!)

don't try to convince me how "liberal on civil rights" the north is. i've been stationed in the army in MD,NY,PA & WI. in MY experience, the north, on the whole, is both less accepting of "difference" and MORE PREJUDICED by far than ANY state in dixie was/IS.

also,the north CURRENTLY has some of the MOST vicious racists & anti-Semites in all of the USA.

free dixie,sw

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The difference, as I'm sure you know, is that in the north, school segregation was never an actual law, as it was in the south. That said, there are plenty of racists everywhere and no region has a monopoly on virtue.