re: Is the South more racist? - Article

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I'm from the north, lived there most of my life. Been in the south over 6 years now. I don't need the article to tell me anything. The north, Midwest/near Omaha, isn't racist, just like the south isn't racist. The population of black people is smaller there, however the Hispanic population is larger it seemed. These statements are all my perception, so if statistics dont match....then maybe it's that the north seems to be more segregated. So maybe the north is more racist...in the south you can knock on 3 doors in a row and find three different races of people. You can't do that very commonly around Omaha. The south is more diverse at least.

I think a true comparison is which race is more racist...and I would vote that Caucasian is the least racist.

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I think a lot of progressives call people racist if a white person does not like a black person.

There are several black people I dislike. But not because they are black but because they are shitty people. And I will add that there are a lot of shitty white people out there as well.

I have a small farm in one of the poorest counties in Alabama. There are about 300 people who live within a 10 mile radius of it. Maybe 50 of them are white. They all work together in the same jobs and for the most part get along well. There certainly isnt the perception that all white people are racist. A few weeks ago I was heading home from the farm and I had an accident while avoiding a deer. Ran off the road and my right front tire hit a culvert and went flat.

Every single person who passed me stopped to check on me. Now this is a small county (paved) road and it was only about 8-9 people in the 30 minutes it took for me to change the flat and check out the truck for more damage. Would those people have stopped to check on a white guy if they thought we were all evil racists?

No.

Some people just want to make things out to be worse than they are. Or the ones screaming "racist!!" is actually a racist and are trying to make people believe that it is the norm.