re: FOR Zou: The racist Deep South

What I do know as truth occurred while I was at Parris Island MCRD back in the late sixties. We had several recruits in my platoon that were blacks who had been drafted. We also had whites who were from the Northeast and Great Lakes area as well. I had never seen the animosity and hatred toward blacks from my fellow Southerners that I observed coming from these Northern boys. However, by the time we were deployed to Nam, most of that prejudice had disappeared when they realized that we all bled the same.