Since we're sharing anecdotes: As a white man living in the South, we still have segregation in practice. I rarely had interaction with blacks because

Since we're sharing anecdotes: As a white man living in the South, we still have segregation in practice. I rarely had interaction with blacks because they did different things and took different classes at school. We all went to the same schools---just didn't have the same classes or have the same social circles. As a white man who was a child in southwestern Missouri in the 1980s, I took the bus to school. A black family with children moved into the area. When the black children tried to board the bus, the white children screamed and yelled at them and wouldn't let them board. I never saw them again, so I don't know if they went on to have the same social circles as white people.