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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what, OP.  People concentrate on the South,  but racism is and was everywhere in the US.  Check out the book Sundown Towns -- which is the history of towns in the United States in which African Americans were lynched or refused admission after sundown.  NINETY PERCENT of them were in the north.  Indiana, Illinois, Ohio.  Yup.  People like to believe that racism was a southern phenomenon, but most Southern towns were integrated.[/quote]

Of course, and yet...the Great Migration that took place was from the Deep South to the North. So the existence of outlier cases, while interesting, doesn't change the fact that blacks moved north because of a universal, totalitarian racist legal framework that existed in the South that had no counterpart in the North.[/quote]

Don't stop there.  Afterwards, they unfortunately found themselves not in a "promised land" of racial equality but in a Northern universal, totalitarian racist place with nowhere left to go.  Lose the wool from your eyes.[/quote]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem

Educate yourself. Seriously.[/quote]

Oh yes, Harlem is a great example of perfect integration!

You made my point for me -- blacks left the south and moved to even more segregated locations in the North.[/quote]

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