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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3476253" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>They had Jim Crow laws in the Southeast.  Not aware of such laws elsewhere.  I never said there was no discrimination elsewhere but definitely not at that level.  A lot of Blacks left the South to get jobs up North in auto factories and elsewhere.  Plenty did well for themselves doing so.  And you know what, a lot have returned to the South because they find the people nicer.  "60 Minutes" did a segment on that phenomenon years ago.  You have a blanket, one size fits all mentality.  You don't allow for change, for personal growth.  And you seem to gloss over problems in the Black community not caused by White racists.  Today's South isn't your grandfather's South.  Most people have learned to get along and move on.</p></blockquote><p></p>