Far as I know, most a those rednecks must have had kids and grandkids. And I think the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. If the ways of the fathers had brought down some kind of cataclysm on the entire society, as for example happened in Germany and Japan, then the next generation might well have realized the error of their parents' ways and turned away from them decisively, particularly since they were present as a new society had to be rebuilt from the ashes. However in the absence of any such catastrophe, I think it's only natural that racist psychos will breed more racist psychos. Like father, like son. Only, thanks to the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Act, imposed upon them by "outside" forces, i.e. the evil Federal Government, they have learned to speak in a different way in public. But the underlying human nature doesn't change all that much from one generation to the next.
