Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
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.
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.
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.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.