re: Is the South more racist? - Article

Race is mostly an artificial concept based on a lot of things that barely register as significant genetic variants, beginning with skin color.

Most of our current racial 'identity' factors -and the prejudices and biases associated with such delineations- have roots in outmoded 19th Century theories that today could only be charitably described as 'pseudo science'.

Whether these classification constructs have resulted in social divisions and outcomes is another argument altogether.

However, the original point remains: our current use of such superficial observations such as skin color to define 'race' is patently absurd. A far better pattern of distinction could be derived from migratory geography as it related to our genetic ancestors through DNA variations.