White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support… - Gunnar Myrdal

Of all the calamities that have struck the rural Negro people in the South in recent decades—soil erosion, the infiltration of white tenants into plantation areas, the ravages of the boll weevil, the southwestern shift in cotton cultivation—none has had such grave consequences, or threatens to have such lasting effect, as the combination of world agricultural trends and federal agricultural policies initiated during the thirties.

Education means an assimilation of white American culture. It decreases the dissimilarity of the Negroes from other Americans.

On the one hand, the negroes’ plane of living is kept down by discrimination from the side of the whites while, on the other hand, the white’s reason for discrimination is partly dependant on the negroes’ plane of living.