Gentlemen Down South

On our post about Gentlemen's Agreement, this blog's Confederate Contingent noted:

Always felt anti semitism was overblown in the US now in Europe different story growing up on the South Jews were fellow Whites who were people of the book now rasicm against blacks yes I saw a lot of that down here but hardly any anti Jewish

This was our grandmother's experience growing up in Baton Rouge and later Waterproof,  Louisiana. She was born in Natchez, Mississippi (pronounced nachis, don't tell this blog it doesn't have southern roots.  As our mother was from Kentucky, more or less, we also know how to pronounce Louisville, sort of like luulvul. You really have to swallow the vowels).

Anyway, here's an old post we did on the subject.

Now here's an interesting question. Would Southern Jews have faced the same kind of wink and a nod de-facto discrimination of the type portrayed in Gentlemen's Agreement?

Below, Hanna Marx Stroock with her only grandchildren, Hartsdale, NY, 1987:

What Will's Watching

Gentleman's Agreement: Gregory Peck and John Garfield take on WASPy anti-Semitism in 1947. Peck plays Phil Green, a gentile magazine writer who wants to blow the top off of Jew hatred. john Garfield is as tough as ever as Green's childhood best friend. Estelle Holm gives an Oscar performance as the magazine's witty, wry and perceptive fashion editor. Watch her closely. Hokey, but that's what the country wanted, needed, and deserved in the late 40's. It's a period piece now. Who are these men that wear a coat, tie and fedora everywhere they go? Growing up in the NYC's northern suburbs and living in Dover, Arlington and now New Jersey, we have never, ever experienced anti-Semitism of the type shown in this film. Never.