re: Paula Deen

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"And.........There were no half black half white tables of ten. All tables were pretty much all black and all white. AND..........everyone seemed to be having a fine time."

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I'd agree with that - people integrate to the extent that they want to. Change the above scenario slightly, and reactions will change: walk into a room with a table of nine whites and nine blacks, but the whites are all speaking Russian and the blacks are all speaking English, and suddenly the black table becomes the more obvious choice to join (reverse it if a black were to see a table of whites speaking English and a table of blacks speaking some form of Bantu). Like will usually seek like - it's just that what constitutes "like" is flexible depending on the circumstances.