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6. Those Magnolia Myths
Long, Richard A. | July 7, 1956 issue

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No one would hesitate to give the South full credit for its mythmaking faculty. There is the myth of the gracious ante-bellum South. There is the myth that the Southern White understands the Negro better than any other White folks understand anything, including relativity. This persists despite the immense human improbability that a people so fundamentally terrorized as the Southern Negro would ever be candid enough with their terrorizers to permit the latter to understand anything about them.

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MYTH; AFRICAN Americans; RACE relations; RACIAL differences; ETHNIC relations; RACISM
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