What does Griggs mean by ‘learn how to live in the south’?
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He means that Wright has to learn how to act around whites- as if he is inferior. That Wright has to be subservient to them and not protest and not ask questions or act as if he were equal to whites. That the south is like that and if Wright doesn't learn to live in the south, then bad things will happen. He says this because Wright is having trouble acting the way he is supposed to. Griggs is concerned for him- knowing that if Wright doesn't 'learn to live in the south' by not suppressing his own equality, then he could get beaten or worse.
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