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[RainDog]

53. True

and busing in the south to integrate schools created the church schools that want funding now from the govt as "charters." The growth of mega-churches in the south corresponds to this attempt of some whites to segregate themselves.

Those mega-churches are also where the religious right has issued their theocratic manifestos in the past few years, as well.

Personally, I think that racism, these days, is tied to economic issues - ala Gringrich trying to insinuate that Af-Ams are this or that when more whites are on welfare than blacks - so, just as Andrew Johnson found back in his day - if he wanted to try to make himself "powerful" in his eyes, even in the face of great poverty - he saw himself as different than Af-Ams - even tho he shared more economic interests in common with those who had been systemically persecuted b/c of the color of their skin.

This still goes on.