Bob Klahn -> John Massey wrote:

 DC>>>>> Approx 88% of whites could read.  Only about 22% of
blacks were
 DC>>>> literate.

 DC>>>> see tinyurl.com/63k7t7

 JM>>>> Ok I looked. It said nothing about southern whites.

 DC>>> The info should be sufficient to make a reasonable conclusion.

 JM>> Bovine excrement, You have shown nothing that shows poor
 JM>> whites in the south were more literate than slaves.

 BK>  He did say a reasonable conclusion, not firm proof. Like I said,
 BK>  the stats I found were not broken down in detail either.

With out stats on share croppers and other dirt poor southerners in the
1860/70's, I don't think a fair conclusion can be made. I sure don't think
it come close to proving the claim made.

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