I don't think Suzanne Collins (who had a say-so in the casting) ever would have allowed that. I remember an interview after the brouhaha of Lawrence being cast where Collins said that while she understood how people had interpreted Katniss as looking different, race wasn't a factor in Katniss, but she very most definitely intended Rue and Thresh to be of color.
Personally, I grew up in a very small, rather isolated tiny town in the very, very rural deep South (hometown of Harper Lee, so To Kill A Mockingbird... my hometown).
Segregation had happened prior to my being born. But it had caused a fair bit of white flight, such that down the street from the public high school there was a k-12 "private school" which was created to avoid desegrgating.
I attended the public school, however. It was 65%-70% African American/30%-35% White. Although we still had strange arcane practices where we would have one white and one black homecoming queen every year.
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Personally, I grew up in a very small, rather isolated tiny town in the very, very rural deep South (hometown of Harper Lee, so To Kill A Mockingbird... my hometown).
Segregation had happened prior to my being born. But it had caused a fair bit of white flight, such that down the street from the public high school there was a k-12 "private school" which was created to avoid desegrgating.
I attended the public school, however. It was 65%-70% African American/30%-35% White. Although we still had strange arcane practices where we would have one white and one black homecoming queen every year.