[Drawsing]

A Southerner would never have used the word “Nigger” for instance, which Northerners clumsily tossed around.

I grew up in the south in the 60s. "Nigger" was used by many of the whites in my rural neighborhood. I heard it from kids and adults. My parents taught me better, but most of my schoolmates and their parents had no qualms about it. Use of the word died down in the 70s and 80s.

[donmeaker]

The word comes from the Latin...