[Corin Stormhands]

It is also a simple fact of history that blacks -could- vote in five northern states in 1860.

While I am not surpised, you missed my point.

I know a lot of racists who don't mind blacks having the right to vote as long as they stay on their side of the tracks. I grew up with people saying "they're just as good as anybody else." Those same people wouldn't let an African-American in their homes, unless it was as domestic help.

That attitude is prevalent in the North as much as it is in the South. Busing told us that much.

Like I said there were advocates for freedom and voting rights.

There were no advocates for next door neighbors.

THAT's my problem with yankees trying to portray all southernors as racists.

[yonif]

"free men are not equal, equal me are not free"

[annyokie]

I found when I lived in Pennsylvania, that Yankees are much more racist than Southerners. I never heard the "n-word" in my family, but heard it daily while in PA, and by well-educated people.