@f884fa2b Agreed entirely...I was in Maryland when I was young in the 60s/70s and saw both sides, the  "well intentioned" liberals who were at least trying and many others who just did not see people of color as even people.  Ultimately this was their rationalization, "They don't deserve human rights as they are not really human." 

 @f884fa2b Because FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!  

Funny how our modern "conservatives" really hate the First Amendment and Constitutional protections generally.

They treat the Constitution like they do the Bible, only being literalists for the parts they like -- and usually even then those parts are made up. 

 @f884fa2b Yes, I would agree with that.  I guess what I was saying was that from 1950-1970 suburban white folk (who which my family was firmly in that camp) could see themselves not as "dominant" but rather "just normal."  We didn't need to defend our position, we could see ourselves as "nice people."

Of Southerners at the same time had their dominance challenged and fought back -- as we are seeing today. 

 @0240ec5d The GOP gets more and more Politbureau every day. 

 @f884fa2b I am not sure if it was so much "dominance" as blissfully unaware.  Being an "Nth Generation" European in the US from 1950 to 1990 (say) was an era where you just didn't have to think of anybody else.  "Safely" moved out to the suburbs where you never had to encounter Black people or recent immigrants of any kind.  Everyone mowed their lawns, painted their house white and everyone was the same.

Now they have to consider other actual people and they hate that.