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This is a poetic device being used for effect by Mr. Dylan. Song writers often do this as a way to bring out some idea they want to stress. This is, of course, a backhanded reference to the old Jim Crow laws of separate but equal for race relations in the old south, "coloreds" sitting in the back of the bus was one of the more objectionable forms of discrimination. So that device being used in the song is a powerful reference. swabby
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