It was similar here in my northern high school much more recently, though we didn’t have enough black students to take a whole table. The Asians usually all sat together, anyway, at least the ones who didn’t assimilate to the dominant nonthinking airhead culture. By the time I graduated, that was beginning to change. Might have reversed by now. Who knows.

The cultures everyone grows up with still depends heavily on race, and since people like being near people they can relate to, it leads to a lot of separation between the races. It’s unfortunate, but there’s not much you can really do about it. You see it a lot in college too, despite all the talk of integration and diversity. Cultural divides. I wish I could say “At least we’re not hostile about it”, but recent events in the nation have proven otherwise.