South Carolina newspaper editor William Workman's book The Case for The South, explaining why some southerners opposed desegregation, was reviewed in the Spring 1960 Harvard Educational Review by Thomas Pettigrew. His synopsis of Workman's argument is as follows: Racial discord accompanies the Negro, whether the situation is segregated or integrated, just so long as he is present in substantial numbers (see p. 98). "Negro children have measurably lower standards than white contemporaries in terms of academic standing, intellectual standing, intellectual background, personal hygiene, and morality" (see p. 239). Further, "Negro men obviously find white women desirable" (p. 217), and so 'amalgamation' of the races — not improvement of the Negro race — is the real aim of the integrationists" (p. 226). Thus, says Workman, for these and other reasons, "literally millions of intelligent, informed, articulate, and perfectly sincere Southerners favor racial segregation...