Lived in Boston for over a decade, married my wife there.
There are racists, but the difference between Boston, Indiana, and the south was that nobody would do anything because they knew the cops wouldn’t help them (well, in Boston it was marginal in places).
The south, the sheriff would help cover anything up, you could just disappear or have an accident. No questions asked, it happened to people, everyone knew.
I doubt there will ever be democracy in the south, there is far too much pride, and I haven’t seen it improve much in my lifetime.
The major difference now is that everybody knows how it is, whereas before people pretended it wasn’t.
Lived in Boston for over a decade, married my wife there.
There are racists, but the difference between Boston, Indiana, and the south was that nobody would do anything because they knew the cops wouldn’t help them (well, in Boston it was marginal in places).
The south, the sheriff would help cover anything up, you could just disappear or have an accident. No questions asked, it happened to people, everyone knew.
I doubt there will ever be democracy in the south, there is far too much pride, and I haven’t seen it improve much in my lifetime.
The major difference now is that everybody knows how it is, whereas before people pretended it wasn’t.