Is it your position that Southerners had Jim Crow laws forced on them?
Perhaps you can cite for me the number of Klansmen brought to justice by local authorities before 1960?
Maybe you think that the majority of white southerners were forced to use "white only" facilities?
Open racism and not so hidden lynchings happened because the majority of southern whites were OK with it. Men listed the Klan on their resume and paraded down main street in their relalia because the majority of people were OK with it.
I grew up in a state that was split during the Civil War, but which did not have Jim Crow. I've lived in the South now for 17 years where there was Jim Crow. I see very little racism by whites, but history is what it is.
I grew up in the South, beginning in the late 40’s, and I did not know a single person who approved of Klan tactics. In fact, I did not meet a Klansman until I was over 40 years old, and he was an ex-Klansman who had quit over 20 years prior. You remind me of Bill O’Reilly, who took a few posts on FR and painted the entire site as racist.
>>>Perhaps you can cite for me the number of Klansmen brought to justice by local authorities before 1960?<<<
Again, I did not know a Klansman prior to 1960. I had heard of them, but I always assumed they were far away from my South Carolina town.
>>>Open racism and not so hidden lynchings happened because the majority of southern whites were OK with it.<<<
Are you Jesse Jackson? You are certainly a race-baiter. As for your ridiculous attempt to re-write history, it is possible that a majority of Southern whites who were born under segregation felt superior to the blacks, if for no other reason than blacks usually were subjugated to menial jobs. But I recall only a few incidents of racism in the form of fighting or obscenity shouting. In fact, whites were far harder on other whites.
In any case, only babbling idiot would declare that a majority of Southern whites were OK with lynchings. That is just downright foolishness.
>>>I’ve lived in the South now for 17 years where there was Jim Crow. I see very little racism by whites, but history is what it is.<<<
History to you is what you make up.