Little Danny wrote:
I think people on this forum make a lot of general assumptions about people in the south as it pertains to race and race relations. Having lived in the south for a number of years, I can tell you there is a lot of interracial relationships, particularly in the bigger cities like New Orleans (probably the most interracial city in America) and Atlanta and in places like the Carolinas, Virginia and Texas. The fact of the matter is there are a larger number of blacks and hispanics in the South and as a result you see a lot more interracial couples.
For whatever reason people on this board seem to confuse the South of today with 1960's rural Mississippi. I guess they've watched too many movies based on John Grisham novels.
Agreed. My experience, having lived in both the north and the south, was that people in the north are far more likely to be anti-southern than southerners are to be anti-northern. I hear a lot more anti-south bigotry up here than I heard the reverse in Houston. And I also saw many more interracial relationships in the south, for the reasons you mentioned. No doubt there are still pockets of racism in the deep South, but I think many people in the north are out of touch with how it actually is.
