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Chapter 9. IEconomic Inequality 4 19
in the Negroes^ racial inferiority and the observation that he ^^just does
not want to have Negroes around” or that he ^^islikes Negroes.” Southern-
born white people in the North usually keep more of the complete defense
system and also spread it In their new surroundings. Even in the North it
happens occasionally, when economic discrimination is discussed, that the
^^social equality” issue and the marriage matter are brought up, though
with much less emotion.
A main difference between the types of rationalization in the two regions
seems to be that the Southerners still think of Negroes as their former
slaves, while the association with slavery is notably absent from the minds
of Northerners. To Northerners, the Negro is, more abstractly, just an
alien, felt to be particularly difficult to assimilate into the life of the com-
munity. But in the South, the master-model of economic discrimination
slavery—is still a living force as a memory and a tradition.
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