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‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on race reflect that

  • Written by James M. Thomas, Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
imageScholars interviewed white Southerners to get past the stereotypes people hold of them.Former Mississippi state flag, CGInspiration, iStock/Getty Images Plus

Historian Nell Painter remarked in 2011, “Being white these days isn’t what it used to be.”

For the past decade, wave upon wave of protests against police violence and mass...

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