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Thread #44386 Message #653369
Posted By: M.Ted
19-Feb-02 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Subject: RE: Night They Drove Ol' Dixie..help
Thanks for posting the link Mary--I learned a lot, like for instance that Karl Marx agressively supported the North! I grew up in a Rust Belt town, full of displaced Southerners and heard all these sentiments expressed by the old timers, as well as the bitterness, which was shared by young and old alike. Blacks that had come from the South were very clear about the fact that, in many ways, the North was more cruel in it's racism than the South, and that segregation was much more extreme--