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One reads in Carleton Putnam's Race and Reason that there was a widespread belief that the "cultural level" of blacks, in every nation, was "below" that of whites, and that free association between the races and especially intermarriage would "pull down" the white race's cultural level. Putnam doesn't mention it specifically, but a lot of white Southerners felt this was happening already with the popularity of rock-and-roll "jungle music" among white teenagers (some even thought it was part of a Communist plot!)
65 years on, looking at the global hip-hop phenomenon and "wiggers", one really has to wonder . . .
It's unclear that hip-hop and the ghetto thug culture could only have come from African Americans, at the very least. Most modern day observers way overestimate the cultural differences between poor southern whites and blacks in the period; the white underclass often behaves in very similar ways to ghetto blacks and trailer trash could easily have invented(and arguably did) thug culture, we associate it with AADOS because that's more visible to us. Hip hop I'm less sure about but the rhythms that became rock n roll were not ethnic specific at the time.
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Black seed has to be powerful indeed for it to radiate black culture to places which never had a sizeable black population.
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