OT but I'm pretty sure there's some anti redneck or whatever rhetoric on these boards as well, as if all racists are in the South. I'm thinking we forget the race riots in the 1940s and 1960s in Detroit.
Rochester 1964
New York 1964
Jersey City, N.J.-1964
Patterson, N.J.-1964
Chicago, Ill.-1964
Watts, LA,Calf. 1968

It was a tense time everywhere.

Anyway, affirmative action is what I recall SV comparing segregation to. While I do think AA is justified, it's certainly not solely predicated on race, and it's hard not to empathize with a young white-male college grad. who gets passed over in the workforce to someone with less education simply because they're minority, female, or aged.