Poll: When did you last socialize with a person of a different race in their home or yours?

[Hortensis]

49. Interesting culture, Bettie. What people originally

settled there?

Here in rural Georgia most people socialize through family and church groups, and of course outsiders will never be completely accepted. I don't shop at the nearest bakery because after several visits I was still ostentatiously rejected as an outsider (conspicuous refusal to smile or talk in contrast to chatting with others, etc.). I've no doubt they're hard-core, bigoted conservatives as we've run into this behavior in many of that type, and I choose to give our business to better people. We have plenty of friends here anyway, and happily, we do socialize in each other's homes.

An old fishing friend of my husband's died last year. They'd been fishing buddies for years, we'd been to a couple of gatherings at his house before his wife died, my husband visited him in a nursing facility after he had a stroke, and we had lunch with his brother after his death, but we couldn't attend the funeral because we were white and he was black. Nothing personally hurtful meant, it was just very old tradition. Funerals are for members of the tribe only.