There is a natural prejudice which prompts
men to despise whomsoever has been their
inferior long after he is become their equal;
and the real inequality which is produced by
fortune or by law, is always succeeded by an
imaginary inequality which is implanted in
the manners of the people.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
from the article Racism and Democracy in Tocqueville's America
by Harry W. Fritz University of Montana History Professor
The Social Science Journal Vol.13, No.3, October 1976
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