Controlled Acculturation: A Survival Technique of the Hutterites

of their experience, that most of the hillbillies would work with Negroes if confronted by a firm policy was borne out by the actions of the southern whites themselves. In fact, some of the most violently anti-Negro southerners were among those who had worked with such as a man who later returned to Tennessee because he couldn't stand to send his children to school with Negroes, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. To most of the hillbillies, Chicago was not a place to live but merely a place to make a living. The South continued to be their principal reference group and they followed its practice of racial segregation and exclusion when it was conveniently possible. When confronted with situations in which these ways could not be adhered to without personal sacrifice, however, they tended to make the necessary behavioral adjustments even though changes in attitudes did not necessarily occur. CONCLUSIONS