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What you say is quite true. You will find elements of racism everywhere you go. America is a very divided country. We separate our selves economically, socially, racially, religiously, and now even politically. Segregation was for quite some time openly practiced in the south and, in my visits to the south I have seen elements of racism that are a throwback to that past. Note I didn't say everyone or everyplace in the south displays this. But I did see a "brand" of racism that I generally don't see here in the north. of course the north has it's own "brand" of racism, neither of which is any better or worst than the other.

No, you did single out the South. I'm glad you live in an area where nothing bad happens. What do they call the place? XANADU?

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No, you did single out the South. I'm glad you live in an area where nothing bad happens. What do they call the place? XANADU?

And to an extent I am going to stick to my guns. The south carried a legacy for some of the worst and most blatant racism in America. It has toned down over the decades and is nothing like it was so, I will give credit where its due. But in my travels down there I heard some pretty nasty racist attitudes that reflect the legacy of the past. . And it was assumed that because I am white I would share those attitudes. Nothing like anything I have ever heard up this way, and we do have some pretty arrogant racists here too, I will definitly give you that. I will also say I was impressed with the south in the sense that they have done a lot to dispel that legacy. And no, things are not perfect here either. I too have been the victim of discrimination right near my own home town. There is one rather affluent community within short distance from my home in which I was discriminated against because I wasn't rich enough for them. I was not of their social-economic caliber. I was watched, tracked, and it was made clear that I am not welcome there, even to just pass through.I guess you can;t call that racism, its more like "classism" or "bank accountism" but it stings just as hard when you are treated as an inferior. Of course they never snub their nose at my money the few times I;ve done business there.

Let me conclude with the words of Samuel Johnson, "The future is purchased by the present." but let me add the saying "time will heal all wounds". The south may still carrty some of its past legacy but they probable have done more to change it and move away from it than we have up here. So, what is our excuse ?