Comments: The South may be the only place in America where black and white actually coexists.

I grew up in the South and will be retiring there in a few yrs. We had a Jitney Jungle grocery store in Pensacola back then. Now they are Win-Dixie i think. Most every one ate the same food. It was just called food. Do not remember anyone going nuts when we bought grits.

Posted by Kelvin at August 19, 2014 8:35 AM

I don't know where that author is located but I lived 40 years about as far south in the US as you can get without getting wet. I also know that the negro's there were nastier and more aggressive against caucasians than any other place I've been, and I've been everywhere.

8 years ago we moved 1000 miles north and while stopping for fuel along the way the places were invariably staffed by negro's and it was very noticeable that the further north we went the better their attitudes. By the time we got here to Ruralville they were downright friendly and a pleasure to converse with. That was, and has been for the past 8 years, quite the sockdolager.

Yes, I boiled in the sun with them doing concrete construction, partied with them, chowed down with them, been in their cribs, and all that. But the average negro on the street in the deep south was something to avoid and everybody except that author knows it. They got a grudge and I never knew why.

Out here in the country, in the woods, in the fields, we get along fine. They leave me alone and I leave them alone and when we cross paths we're naturally cordial.

Posted by ghostsniper at August 19, 2014 1:38 PM

Some folk are just nasty, others not so much. I've met both, white and black.

Here in SC, over in Greenville, it seems they're content to kill each other off at a fairly good rate. Drive-by, shoot 'em on their lawn, shoot the ole lady...Some guy walked over and shot a dude on his riding mower. Grudge? Big hardon I'd say.

Maybe they're pissed they can't get up to Ferguson.

Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at August 19, 2014 2:01 PM

That's a good point. When I was briefly in the south a few years back, blacks and whites worked together and just treated each other like folks. Maybe it was all some clever ruse to fool the Oregonian, or maybe that's just how it is.

Posted by Christopher Taylor at August 19, 2014 5:51 PM

We saw each other as the unwilling last of our kind, the live and let live white guy and black guy.

Posted by chasmatic at August 19, 2014 8:46 PM

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