The Only Bigots Live In The South

The Boy Scouts and the South - The Daily Beast

...There is a long and appalling history in this country of the rest of us having to act like bigots and enforce bigoted because of the South. It has existed in legislation--the GI Bill had to be written in such a way that it wouldn't benefit blacks too much, or the legislators of the South said they would kill it. Before that, much of the New Deal legislation had to be written in the same way (sic)...