[The New South by Holland Thompson]@TWC D-Link bookThe New South CHAPTER VII 42/43
Negro babies are born faster than they could easily be carried away, even if there were no other obstacle.
The suggestion that whites be expelled from a State or two, which would then be turned over to negroes, is likewise impracticable.
Amalgamation apparently is going on more slowly now, and more rapid progress would presuppose a state of society and an attitude toward the negro entirely different from that which prevails anywhere in the United States.
There is left then the theory that, with increasing wealth and wider diffusion of education, or even without them, he negro must take his place on equal terms in the American political and social system.
This theory, of course, requires an absolute reversal of attitude upon the part of many millions of whites. Color and race prejudice are stubborn things, and California and South Africa are no more free from such prejudices than the Southern States. In fact, South Africa is today wrestling with a problem much like that of the United States and is succeeding no better in solving it.
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