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Sounds like these southern cracka's need to be brought to heel by any means necessary
When it comes to views on race, white rural Americans diverge significantly from the rest of the country. In the Post-Kaiser poll, white rural Americans are one of few demographic groups more likely to say whites “losing out due to preferences for blacks and Hispanics” is a bigger problem than vice versa, 39 to 30 percent. Among rural whites in the South, 45 percent say whites losing out is the bigger problem.
“In order for an African American to get an opportunity, someone has to give them an opportunity,” said Yulanda Haddix, 54, who recently moved from Philadelphia back to Starkville, Miss., where she was raised. “We don’t get jobs based on credentials alone, not in Mississippi.”
Ku Klux Klan membership has declined across the country, but it maintains an active recruiting wing in St. Martinville, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery-based nonprofit organization that tracks hate groups. And parish schools have been the subject of a decades-long desegregation lawsuit.
The most recent source of tension came last year, when St. Martinville officials shut down the town’s decades-old annual Mardi Gras parade — a move viewed negatively by many black residents and positively by many whites.
The parade participants were mostly black, as were the out-of-town fans the celebration drew, and it was growing.
Quinn felt Nelson’s decision to shut down the parade pandered to white voters: “He promised the whites he was going to shut the n----- parade down if they voted for him.”
Differences, in black and white: Rural Americans’ views often set apart by race
When it comes to views on race, white rural Americans diverge significantly from the rest of the country. In the Post-Kaiser poll, white rural Americans are one of few demographic groups more likely to say whites “losing out due to preferences for blacks and Hispanics” is a bigger problem than vice versa, 39 to 30 percent. Among rural whites in the South, 45 percent say whites losing out is the bigger problem.
“In order for an African American to get an opportunity, someone has to give them an opportunity,” said Yulanda Haddix, 54, who recently moved from Philadelphia back to Starkville, Miss., where she was raised. “We don’t get jobs based on credentials alone, not in Mississippi.”
Ku Klux Klan membership has declined across the country, but it maintains an active recruiting wing in St. Martinville, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery-based nonprofit organization that tracks hate groups. And parish schools have been the subject of a decades-long desegregation lawsuit.
The most recent source of tension came last year, when St. Martinville officials shut down the town’s decades-old annual Mardi Gras parade — a move viewed negatively by many black residents and positively by many whites.
The parade participants were mostly black, as were the out-of-town fans the celebration drew, and it was growing.
Quinn felt Nelson’s decision to shut down the parade pandered to white voters: “He promised the whites he was going to shut the n----- parade down if they voted for him.”
Differences, in black and white: Rural Americans’ views often set apart by race
