The North is more racist than the South

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The North is more racist than the South
I’ve heard this from some people who are older then me. What are yalls experiences

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It's true in some ways. One of the most annoying ways is in lily white cities that fancy themselves "progressive", but who never have to actually, you know, spend time with black people.

I always say the south is more of BOTH: since we spend so much time in and around each other, we like each other more and also have more friction.

Yep... heard it straight from a yankee's mouth.

It depends on what you mean by racist, exactly.

You're more likely to hear Southerners of any color drop epithets and express ideas about the other groups. However, they are more likely to get along in shared spaces and there are generally not many problems. The Yankees who proclaim to be the most race tolerant/woke are also the most likely to live in lily white neighborhoods with no interactions with those of a different race, and take a very patronizing and savior complex view of others.

IMO, of course.

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There is more interaction between the races here in a week than your average New Englander has in his or her entire life.

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Thats racist!

I’ve heard an anecdote from Thomas Sowell where he said blacks fed the Jim Crow era south only to be met with equal if not more vitriol by white northerners. Because of this, The Nation of Islam was formed and birthed in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York to take the place of the civil rights movement occurring in the heart of Dixie.

I think southerners are in general less racist, as in the terms of willing to interact, socialize, do business with different races, but are much more willing to make race based jokes. Northerners like to virtue signal and chastise those jokes, until they must interact with people of different color and then it’s a very different story. Especially if they are from the northern Midwest or Lilly white areas of the north east or PNW

Don’t tell sanctimonious costal elites that. They are much better than us in rural, fly-over states

You can spot the Yankees here in SC because they're the one's who act afraid when approached by a black man.

Used to work with a guy from New Jersey. He told me shite that I've never seen growing up in the south. It's very much a "stay on your side of town" attitude from what he told me

I was born in the south, spent 6 years in northeast Ohio, the north is more racist by far. At the very least they are more segregated, each group sticks to each other. In the south our public schools introduced you to other races, daily life put you in contact with other races,local bars put you in contact with other races