Why did the South take so long to adjust to civil rights movement and conform to chages as the North had done?

Question

Why did the South take so long to adjust to civil rights movement and conform to chages as the North had done?

Answer 1

I can't agree with the premise of your question. After leaving the Navy in 1961, following a three-year tour of duty in the South, I returned to the North and began apartment hunting in Newark, New Jersey. Every newspaper ad read "White Tenancy Only". Newark was the headquarters of the Congress of Racial Equality at the time.

The draft riots in New York City during the Civil War happened because young white men in that city were not about to go into the Union Army to save the blacks. As an eight-year old boy I sat in the stands at Ebbets Field in  Brooklyn on April 15, 1948 and watched as Jackie Robinson came out of the dugout to take up his position at first base. I had never been exposed to such vile racist language in my life until that moment. And he was playing for the home town team!

You also have to realize that the court case which ended segregation in public schools is called Brown versus Topeka Board of Education. That town is in Kansas, not in Dixie. I now live in Southern Nevada. For many years Las Vegas was known as "Mississippi West" because of its abhorrent racial policies. During World War Two they had two USOs. One for white soldiers, one for black soldiers.

Yes, the South had "Jim Crow" laws. But, the rest of the country also practiced a lot of racial intolerance. They just did it as a cultural practice rather than by statute and law.

Answer 2

The south was more affected by the abolition of slavery than the north, since they lost their principle source of cheap labor.  A lot of southerners held a grudge, and still do to this day.

Answer 3

Attitudes of people varies according to location and it is the reason why the South and North had different treatments of civil rights.

Answer 4

I suppose the blacks up north just love living in the ghettos.

Answer 5

The Southern population, at the time of the Civil War, was invested heavily in human slavery. It was one of the basis' of their economic structure. When slavery was abolished, it took away a good portion of their ability to make money. The problem was generational, and as such the resentment was passed down through generations of many Southerners. It is only in the last fifty years with the advent of civil rights, the situation has improved, although not completely abolishing some of the prejudices that some from the South retain.  As their economy has recovered from the abolition of slavery as a labor force, and gone to more of manufacturing and service industries, attitudes of the majority have gradually changed.

Answer 6

When has the north ever adjusted to the civil rights movement ?

If you look at the density of minorities in the north, compared to the south.

The north forces the minorities to live next to each other, separate from the whites.

Where in the south, blacks and whites have always lived side by side. Even in the bad old days.

The census publishes that data every 10 years.

Also if you look, the majority of the minorities, live in the south , followed by the west.

There just aren't that many minorities living up north.

And the ones who do, live in very specific areas.

You just don't see mixed racial neighborhoods in the north outside the cities in the suburbs.