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In reply to the discussion: Australia set to recognise Aborigines as first people of continent [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)I liked this post, but the Jim Crow laws were really only promoted by a very vocal minority(like the Teabaggers of today), and mostly in the Southeast. Maybe 25% of the total U.S. population at the very most(and that is a somewhat pessimistic estimate on my part I might add).
Unfortunately, the passage of Jim Crow and the anti-"miscegenation" laws were a rather prominent example of how a rather smallish yet influential minority can make the rules for everyone else.
Truth is, 50 years ago, the far right often tried to claim that most people were on their side, and blithered out and/or wrote all sorts of agitprop to try to get people to actually believe their bulls**t. Nowadays, they usually say that racism was greatly exagerrated and that blacks actually had it okay in the South. Same general M.O., slightly different tales.
You've got that small minority who really truly believes in their agitprop(although many of them know it's based on lies and deceit), and the hundreds of thousands of brainless sheep who follow them simply they are unable to think for themselves. This same thing also happened in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany.