Probably true, because of our society, we have never gotten too far from race. The wounds of the Civil War still bleed in the South. I spent some time, pre-civil rights, in Mississippi and it opened my Yankee eyes. By the time the civil rights movement started to gain speed, I was on board. This did not make me popular in high school, as a strong Southern Heritage was present in Orange County California. It was the land of Nixon, John Birch, and Goldwater Republicans. A lot of the citrus growers were Southerners who treated 'their' braceros much as if they were black.