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    "ocrText": "MEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nJuly 20, 1964\nMEMORANDUM FOR\nLee C. White\nWhen people talk about the problem of the so-called white backlash,\nthey most frequently suggest that the main roots of it in the North\nwill be found in the Polish, Italian and Irish communities. This is\nprobably so. As one analyzes the problem, however, it comes to\nmind that all three of these groups have a certain common characteristic\nthey are Catholic and as such they live in parishes in which home and\nschool are closely intertwined. The pressure of the Negro who is\nlooking for living space falls more heavily upon their communities\nthan upon Protestant communities because most Protestant children\nattend the public schools, or private schools which bear no relationship\nto the location of their homes. The average middle or lower class\nCatholic usually resides in a community in which he has made con-\nsiderable personal sacrifice to build up the local school, and as new\npeople replace Catholics in the neighborhood, the cost of maintaining\nthe school becomes proportionately greater. This is the first reason\nfor friction between these groups.\nThe second reason is a more general one, namely the loss of property\nvalues and the waive of panic selling which usually takes place shortly\nafter Negroes are introduced into established communities. Now it\nis obvious that both of these problems could be obviated if Negro\nland occupancy did not follow the existing pattern of ghetto expansion,\nbut this is impossible so long as Negroes are not freely permitted to\nrent or purchase property in the general community.\nThe present plans that FHA has for building ideal communities in which\nnew policies will be pursued are to my mind visionary, and it would\nseem to me much more feasible to take some steps to alleviate the\neconomic burdens that press upon existing white householders and create\nfar more tension than the actual presence of people of another race in\ntheir community.\nCivil Rights Gen"
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