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.

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

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