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“A caste system has a way of filtering down to every inhabitant, its codes absorbed like mineral springs, setting the expectations of where one fits on the ladder. “The mill worker with nobody else to ‘look down on,â€� regards himself as eminently superior to the Negro,â€� observed the Yale scholar Liston Pope in 1942. “The colored man represents his last outpost against social oblivion.”