[Darkwolf377]

As a big Walker Percy fan and someone who's lived in and around Boston most of my life I have no problem saying he was correct (though incomplete--there are plenty of racists in all regions of this country, and to deny that is just silly regionalism). The LEAST racist, ironically because they lived side by side with the most racist, are the inner city whites and blacks--some got along without missing a beat, others never considered changing their ways. But both groups were far from liberal.

The "well-meaning" libs, on the other hand, would have their protests and op-eds...and would then sign petitions keeping black provate schools from their Cambridge neighborhoods.

The working classes have to learn to live together; acceptance often comes without thinking about it. But libs who live in their precious all-white communities think their fear of non-whites is actually some weird form of respect. They're the most insidious ones, I think, that Freemen referenced.

[Alberta's Child]

You're right.

I should have put Percy's comment in the proper context. If I remember correctly, the article he had written was intended to paint a picture of race relations in the U.S. 100 years after the Civil War.