Having been raised amid it, I'm not going to deny blue-collar racism. As a child I saw neighbors cheering as a home burned down, a sight etched in my memory. There was a rumor it had been bought by a black family. But in seminar rooms and country clubs, I've also heard anti-black sentiments — albeit expressed more discretely. "We moved out here for the children's sake," suburbanites will say. "The schools are better."