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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.