Yeah understand a little my grandma was full blood Cherokee.Midwest wasn't too bad but they couldn't travel further west especially Texas where it was illegal to buy alcohol until 1960s

I read this book in the 1960's. I still remember it.

I tend to prefer the biological/psychological view on racism. People who lack the self-assuredness to confront new situations with confidence either due to lack of experience or some anxiety or condition find themselves frightened internally at even the mere thought of someone foreign to them. They fear the lack of familiarity. That fear activates the limbic system in the lizard brain and the fight/flight response stimulates the adrenal gland. That adrenaline burst short circuits any interactivity with logic/reasoning portion of the pre-frontal cortex and actions/thoughts become dominated by emotions whipping around the cerebrum. They're scared by fuzzy little foreigners so much that they can't think straight.