As a sociologist, Raper concerned himself with everything from the legal impediments African Americans faced to the way blacks and whites arranged themselves around the hot stove in a small-town general store. He was among the first generation of southern public intellectuals, an engaged academic in a region where anti-intellectualism had a long and healthy tradition.

In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).

[S]uch ſmiling rogues as theſe, / Like Rats oft bite the holy cords a twaine, / Which are t' intrince, t' vnlooſe: […]

A boshter night for a walk, I remarked, buttoning my coat about me.