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The New South

CHAPTER VII
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Negroes have subscribed liberally in proportion to their means for Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps and have given liberally to war work.
The growth of a sense of responsibility for the welfare of the negro upon the part of the more thoughtful and more conscientious portion of the white population has reduced racial friction in many communities.
White women are evincing more interest in the morals of black women than was usual fifteen or twenty years ago.

Ostracism is more likely to visit a white man who crosses the line.

There is no means of knowing the actual amount of illicit intercourse, but the most competent observers believe it to be decreasing.

Though the percentage of mulattoes has increased since 1890, according to the census, the figures are confessedly inaccurate, and the increase can be easily accounted for by the marriage of mulattoes with negroes, and the consequent diffusion of white blood.

An aspiring negro is likely to seek a mulatto wife, and their children will be classed as mulattoes by the enumerators.
Except for the demagogues, whose abuse of the negro is their stock in trade, the most bitter denunciations come from those nearest to him in economic status.


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