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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> So, since the nearest community is in a neighboring county, and you
> don't work there or go there on a daily basis(or do you?) and I assume
> there is no local TV in that county, that would not be seeing this
> firsthand for yourself like I am.  That is really too bad, because I
> would like to know how widespread this belief is. Is it just in the
> South where the largest black populations reside, or is it also in the
> North?

I don't know about elsewhere in the North, but I work in Springfield,
Illinois, a city that had a race riot in 1908 that it's been trying to
live down ever since (Wikipedia has a nice entry on it.) Springfield
today is highly integrated, and mixed marriages and mixed-race kids
are common. My workplace is well integrated. We have lots of hispanics
too. I haven't seen any of what Bev describes. If anyone thinks
they're getting some kind of free ride they aren't letting on. OTOH,
all of the people that I work with and talk to on a regular basis are
middle class. Maybe that makes the difference.

Marie