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Exactly correct. The socialist lefty loon sociologist James Loewen, dissembling writer of the grossly disingenuous "Lies My Teacher Told Me", ironically documents this as a period he calls "the nadir of race relations". He does a great deal of hand wringing because in many parts of the country there was strict segregation and sundown towns (which he also wrote a book about), particularly in the northern states, but their standard of living was higher and their families were intact because they were forced to work.