re: Are race relations worse in south or north?

It’s prob worse in the big cities now but even a place like Nola has a lot of transplants.

So idk, if I was in Atlanta or Nola I’d cross the street. 10 years ago I wouldn’t.

Growing up in N La I really never knew what racism really was till I visited Richmond, Indiana for a week.

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North is more segregated

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I'm told by the wokesters that "minorities" need their own spaces.

North. But I was in a southern State when Obama was elected----some black people had on Obama's shirt in grocery stores---- and gave white people the big time stink eye, as in they were ready to knife you.

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And yet, they have had a pathetic BLM banner signaling their virtue from the get go and with absolutely no sense of the irony or understanding about the ridiculous nature of this 'proclamation'

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“Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”

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they want no part of a black neighbor moving next door and putting up a basketball goal for weekend games in the driveway with rap music blasting.

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I don't care what color someone is if they do that shite. I'll be pissed.

Gentrification CAN happen in the south but I find it tends to not happen unless geography requires it.

The warehouse district and some other areas of NOLA got gentrified in part because there were only so many areas that could be built up given flooding, the river, the lake, NO East’s existence, etc.


The remainder of the south? You are far more likely to see flight to the suburbs than gentrification because there ARE places to move to. Lots of empty spaces and sleepy towns which can get built up.

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Someone said the difference between the North and South on race was that Southerners generally hated the black race except for their friends that were members of it. The Northerners loved the race but really could find no member of it that they actually liked.

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That’d be William Faulkner, he said that in the south we hate the race and love the individual and the north loves the race but hates the individual.

Funny anecdote, a bunch of friends went out to eat one night and one guy brought a coworker who had come down from Michigan. When he realized that most of the kitchen staff were black he decided not to eat saying that he didn’t want to have “them” handling his food. We had a good laugh and told him he might as well head on back home because he would absolutely starve in Mississippi.