RACISM

Dixie Ain’t Just in the South

A few thoughts on America’s original sin

Top: White counter-protesters along the route of a Chicago Freedom Movement march, circa 1966. | Photo credit: Chicago Tribune. Bottom: White supremacists march through the city of Boston in 2022. Photo: Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images.

Because of the South’s history of enslavement and Jim Crow segregation, there is a general perception that the country’s racial problems only exist in the land of Dixie. But as Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. learned during the Civil Rights Movement, reality tells a different story.