[TexasFreeper2009]

As I stated, in the South, we left them alone, and they left us alone (live and let live). Jim Crow was just the legalization of that philosophy.

In the North they HATED blacks, and mistreated them HORRIBLY (and still do). That is why the blacks almost always riot in the North and later West.

[safeasthebanks]

“Jim Crow was just the legalization of that philosophy.”

So....you are actually DEFENDING Jim Crow laws??

Really??

[Gay State Conservative]

As I stated, in the South, we left them alone, and they left us alone (live and let live).

In 1969 I joined the Army and was ordered to Fort Knox,KY for BCT.Most of the guys in my Company were Southern boys....Tennessee,Mississippi and Texas to be precise.Most were white but a few were black.As a boy who had lived his whole life in the suburbs of Boston,and having read many reports about trouble in the South I expected serious racial trouble.I was wrong.Not a lick of trouble from the white guys *or* the black guys.

Maybe it's because we had a common enemy...the DIs!

[oh8eleven]

in the South ... they left us alone
Yeah, they left you alone thanks to the Jim Crow laws, the KKK, etc.
Two hundred fifty years since you lost the CW and you're still blaming the Northerners.

[Wallace T.]

Don't forget that in several Northern states, like Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey, public schools in certain counties were segregated by law, not just custom. Delaware and Maryland, neither of which joined the Confederacy, had statewide segregation in public schools and public accommodations. The Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that declared school segregation unconstitutional, was a case out of Kansas, a Union state. The Western states did not have much in the way of legal restrictions on blacks, but had them on Asians, American Indians, and Mexicans instead.

The North and West had their own sins in respect to race and are in no position to criticize the South.