“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.” MenCountryFeltKnownLonelinessDiscoveryRootsRelationRace RelationsDistressing Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.” FeelsWarLostFeltParentWealthRichSecuritySouthRaisedFinancialDefenseErasSufficientRegionsPatrioticRespectableRebuildingSouthernerLost EverythingFinancial Security Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition
