Robert Watson Winston (1860 – 1944) was, in every sense, a man of his age. A Democratic politician from the state of North Carolina, he penned this highly prejudiced article about segregation (he liked it). He packed his column with all sorts of fifty cent words like “miscegenation”, “quadroons” and “octoroon”. He was yet one more white Southerner who feared “race blending” and the sharing of political power with African-Americans. He was delighted that so many of them were headed to the more industrialized states in the North.
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KEY WORDS: Should the Color Line Go Reader’s Digest 1923,fear of race blending in the twenties,southern fear of race mixing 1923,white southern fear of Mulattos,hatred of Mulattos in the old south,
