DARE Interview : Macon, Georgia; Primary Informant GA054

Fieldworker

Rentschler, Sally

Date

• 1968

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• GA054: White; male; age: 20 (young); education: college; community type: large city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: GA054 (3:47)
• Full Interview (Tape 0320-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Arthur the Rat
• 04:15 Fishing, would like to try Okefenokee sometime. Doesn't know or like most people at Mercer, his college
• 09:15 A few White liberals at college, but most learned from parents to be bigots. Military high school handled integration well
• 14:05 Racist teachers apologizing; integration will work eventually. Thinks Southern Blacks are better off in South, where races interact
• 17:15 How he thinks prejudice works
• 21:50 Many colleges in Georgia are awful, worse than high schools. His is right behind Georgia Tech and Emory
• 26:00 Amazing math teacher at high school
• 28:40 Tape end