James Webb's call to end federal diversity programs has gotten a lot of attention, but Ilya Somin says Webb's article wrongly absolves poor whites of their role in maintaing Jim Crow.
Last year, I read biographies of civil rights leader T.R.M. Howard and Booker T. Washington. Both men regarded Southern businessmen as people they could work with. It was lower-class whites who tended to be most supportive of, and most violent in their support of Jim Crow.
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