[wardaddy]

There is not truth whatsoever that blacks used to have lower illegitimacy rates than whites but it's the politically correct myth that black and white illegitimacy rates after WWII were equal....far from it. How this myth so far from fact persists even on conservative sites once again proves how effective political correctness and it's lies have been.

white rate was....get this...unbelievable...2 percent in 1940s and 3.6% in 1963

last time blacks voted GOP was prior to 1932...for the record

black rate was 16.8% in 1940s and 23.6 percent in 1963...

and they were alarmed about this then even BEFORE the Great Society junk

welfare just worsened it but it's more than that...it's a cultural breakdown and rejection of values and religion based morality that is now considered “extreme” to believe in

and while the black rate has quadrupled, the white rate has increased more than 10 fold proving that welfare and LBJ only made matters worse but neither created the mess nor explain the increase beyond the black community

here is a Government work on the issue from 1963...it explains it all very clearly and shows how far we've fallen with such dire consequence...two Americas basically...those of us clinging to a Norman Rockwell vision of traditionalism and families and those who've abandoned all hope and dignity and have embraced the feral

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/moynchapter2.htm

i had a pal over last nite who just moved down from Canada and is rather a libertarian...he's Polish but raised in South Africa....his forst comment to me was why are all the poorer white parts of Nashville area now overrun with chavs or "wiggahs" or whatever the correct term is....it is a major issue here...not so much in Mississippi where I come from but is epidemic in middle TN....it's part of the whole breakdown...it has spread to all groups...when I grew up poor whites had dignity

[hosepipe]

“Statistics are like a woman’s bikini, what it reveals is of interest, but what it conceals is vital.” - Igor Karasyck

[Yardstick]

Thanks for the correction. I liked the (erroneous) figure not out of anything to do with PC but because it seemed to clearly pin the blame for black family breakdown on Great Society liberalism. An actual figure of 17% muddies the waters somewhat but I think the point still holds, though it needs to be widened some to include the effects of the 60s social revolution which affected whites too.