Talk politics.

What's fucking ironic about that is the people who created Jim Crow were the leaders of the defeated Confederacy. They lost slavery in a string of asskickings but would not accept civil rights until that too was forced on their descendants. For that matter Republicans have always had racist overtones. Even Lincoln said "If I do not want a Negro for a slave, that does not necessarily mean I want her for a wife. It is my expressed wish that all men, everywhere, should be free." For most of US history the only leaders to really push for civil rights were not white, but black. Whites were dragged kicking and screaming.