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[quote=Anonymous]My in laws all live in the deep south. I am not a southern myself and am baffled by it all as well. They do NOT talk about it with me. Every once in a while there will be a slip where someone expresses bitterness about being judged harshly by the world, that the rest of the world is equally racist or even more racist. One thing that was new to me when I first met them was that they all have "help" cleaning their houses and "sitters" staying with the elderly. And the help and the sitters are always black women who go by Miss Winnie or Miss Whatever, no matter how old they are. And no one talks about it or acknowledges that they are there. We just go about our conversations and use the house as if these servants were part of the plumbing in the house. It makes me feel uncomfortable. I guess it's something like Downton Abbey. [/quote]
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