Well, I think that certainly, it would be part of the overall South, but
I think that North Carolina . . . one way you
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examine that period, one could easily examine from the type of lawsuits
for the advancement of the cause of black people in the various areas to
get an index of what occurred. And I would think that during that period
of time, the emphasis was on education, primarily. The education and
upward mobility of educators is basically concerned, I think, with
education and I think also with some integration of labor unions. Once
again, you are looking at a number of attitudes that influenced the
attitudes of those in power . . . their ability to do things without a
force of law, was also important. During Terry Sanford's time, I think
he used general orders or just put good people in spots to try to make
things happen, who would move along. Once you had a Civil Rights Act
passed, it was easier to do things. So, North Carolina has had an
attitude of once it is put in a position to do something along racial
lines, most of the time, it cheerfully accepted the mandate and went on
and did it. And then, I think there's a difference in attitudes between
the larger metropolitan areas . . . of course, we have an agrarian state
basically and we have no major big cities, our largest cities are around
100,000; Charlotte may be up to 150,000 now. Greensboro, Raleigh,
Durham, High Point, Asheville, Wilmington, places like that are around
100,000. But I think that in most of the middle Piedmont area, there's
an attitude to go forward, to do more.