Everybody I have ever met from Chicago talks about the racial hatred everybody there has for everybody else,regardless of color.
@sneakypete That's kinda right. I'm a Dutchman. Funny that you mention Pollocks, because for all that the Dutch in Chicago make fun of Pollocks, it's mostly good-hearted, and more than any other, other than Hollanders, most of the folks I knew otherwise were Polish.
Race was determined by neighborhood there even in the 60's MUCH more than it ever was in the south,and it was more violent.
It's really kind of weird... Folks of a kind kinda live together, and kinda divided similar to the old country... Wherever the Dutch were, the Pollocks were nearby... and Germans/Austrians not far off. But the Greeks and the Italians tended to live close together, farther away from me - I did not have southern Europeans in my immediate life hardly at all. So not everyone hated everyone. But because Chicago was so racially insular, If you got more than a few suburbs over, you were not in your kind anymore... And in fact, you were probably not in northern European tribes anymore, and things were strange, and might tend to rub you wrong.
But there was a good quality to that too - I know quite well what a stereotypical Jewish deli is, or Italian restaurant, complete with the fat mamma that ran the place like a dictator... I know that it's true that you can't leave an Italian restaurant hungry... I know exactly what an Irish pub is like... You could step into a neighborhood and get a fairly accurate depiction of daily life in a wholly different culture. I admire that and miss it.
I grew up with what you call racial slurs... Kikes and Dagos, Micks and Spics... But honestly, none of that was hard-hearted necessarily. It felt more to me a sort of shorthand... nicknames for 'races', which did not seem out of place, because Chicagoans have nicknames for everything.
Of course, you'd have to realize these are observations of a young lad - so probably somewhat naive. I do know a whole lot of Pollock jokes, and I remember a seething hatred of blacks... Somewhat so for generic Latinos too, but far less than for blacks...
I am GUESSING the violence is because practically everybody in the south had been living where they were living for generations and saw each other more as neighbors than they did enemies. Especially in the rural areas where they helped each other in time of need because there WAS nobody else to help them so they helped each other. They mostly stayed separate because they were different,not because they hated each other.
That's somewhat so in Chicago too, less the undertones of racism. But yeah... Rural folks are all hard up and need each other... pretty hard to be un-neighborly.
MOST,not all,reservation Indians are the scum of the Earth. Parasites that do nothing but whine,get drunk or high,and cause problems. I have no use for them whatsoever.
That's about right, except add in the liberal do-gooders trying to fix em... It's got a ghetto feel. And since you are in Colorado, I figured you'd know the difference. Western reservations are a different thing. And the distinction is profound. Natives off the res cannot stand the res. I guess it is a lot like American Mexicans vs illegal Mexicans down south... Feels the same way from afar. Folks down there have the same sort of distinction, and American Mexicans sound like they agree.
I say "most" because there are some that are just caught up in unfortunate family situations,and who can't leave because they are taking care of elderly or handicapped relatives,etc,etc,etc.
Absolutely. There's mighty fine folks living on the res too... But they're not res indians, even though they do... But most folks with gumption get away as fast as they can.
Most that I know live up with the hillbillies because the cultures are pretty compatible - Most hill folk own a set of buckskins and tend toward native jewelry and accoutrements. A whole lot of em have native wives and speak the native tongue. But they've a pretty solid presence down on the ranches too... All the rondys and rodeos have a strong native presence. It's pretty hard to be rural, or even small-town and not have a few natives crossing your path pretty regularly.
