ABSTRACT
The position of the propertied class in Britain is hardly desperate; but the situation can be a good deal more serious for a racial or cultural minority. In the United States, communal integration has gone much further in the North than in the South. In the North, many issues cut across the racial division between white and black. Negro votes are now eagerly sought by both parties. In the southern states, however, where there are few enfranchised negroes, and racial conflict is acute, no politician can afford to show much sympathy for negro aspirations. Northern Democrats try to win back, by their own enthusiasm for negro rights, some of the votes they lose in the North through the damaging attitude of Democrats in the South.
