re: what is the difference between southern and midwestern culture?

They get so excited when there is a racial incident somewhere north of the mason dixon.

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That always cracks me up. Boston is more racist than Mississippi!!

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I have told this story on here before, but here goes:

When I was at LSU in the early 80's I remember one day I was riding the bus and reading the Reveille. In particular, it was an article about poor race relations in the South.

Guy sitting next to me sees I'm reading the article and says, "I don't see any problems with race relations here. You seem to get along fine with black people. You interact and work with them much more than where I come from. I'm from Boston and whenever black people would try to move into our neighborhoods they'd get firebombed out."

Now, I know this may not represent all cities in the North, but it certainly opened my eyes to the bullshite the big media likes to portray about race relations here as opposed to relations in their own backyard.