random thought:
It feels like a lot of people don't realize how recent slavery was and segregation history after that and people have difficulties to understand why it is sticking to much in nowadays civilisation.
Well, there is still a decent part of the population in the US that grew up along with civil war veterans.
When you think about that it becomes easier to understand history lingering with all crazy elder in families spouting their traditional racist views, transmitting them more efficiently than you want to acknowledge.
Now that part of population is obviously going down a lot but it's presence is felt everywhere.
random data:
Quote:
In 2014, there were 72,197 Americans aged 100 or older, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
when they were 10 year old they had civil war vets and/or people from that era walking along them.
In 2010 the 90 year old+ was 1.5M or so.
etc...
someone get my point pls
link to census
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/...c2010br-09.pdf