--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 8/2/05 7:54:05 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > I made many, many auto trips from Florida and Georgia > > > up to New England in my youth, because my father's folks > > > lived up there. Encountering a segregated restaurant along > > > the way would have been a rarity. Almost all were integrated. > > > > By sometime in the fifties segregation was, for the most part, limited to > > the country club type establishments, where rich white folks didn't want > > to be around ANYBODY with less stature then themselves. > > In my experience, the segregation persisted the longest at > the two ends of the economic scale. The more wealthy an > establishment and its clientele was, the more likely it would > be segregated. And the poorer the establishment, and the > more poor and redneck its clientele, *also* the more likely > it would be segregated. This comprised about 20% of the > white-owned businesses. > > > Depending on when the > > Gores were traveling back and forth between Nashville and DC I > > find it hard to believe they couldn't find decent food > > establishments that would accept Al's Mammie. > > I find it difficult to believe, too, and unlike the "experts" in > this pissing contest, I actually lived there and traveled these > roads and ate in the restaurants along the way at the time.
Once again: Nobody in this discussion has styled themselves as an "expert." The only two people to say anything about what it was like in the South during that period were in agreement with *Barry* that discrimination wasn't absolute. Barry's having a pissing contest with a figment of his own imagination. > > Sounds more like they had a favorite place or two that were > > higher class and didn't allow "coloreds" and they told Mammie all > > the places were segregated and they had no choice. > > We'll never know, of course, but this sounds spot on. Except for the point I keep making, which nobody has addressed: If that were the case, the right wing working so hard to paste the racist label on Gore the racist label would have moved heaven and earth to document integrated restaurants along that route, to prove Gore was not only a racist but a liar. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
