How is the South inherently 'racist'?

Interesting that you used two very liberal cities to make you point. ATL is in the south but in no way can be considered GOP and conservative. Its the only blue spot in GA's elections.

 

Well then, my apologies. My context was that you were refering to the south being a lower IQ than the north and that is why the claim about the south being more racist as with other posters have done.

 

Lol.....thats where I have lived...there isnt a conspiracy involved. In regards to the Atlanta suburbs, particularly where I lived, they were VERY conservative. As far as calling both cities liberal, exactly what large cities arent liberal?

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Lol.....thats where I have lived...there isnt a conspiracy involved. In regards to the Atlanta suburbs, particularly where I lived, they were VERY conservative. As far as calling both cities liberal, exactly what large cities arent liberal?

 

Slavery...why are those trying to excuse it always prattling on irrelevantly about how some other guy did it first?

 

stop drawing loony conclusions

i was familiar with that history over 40 years ago

i'm still waiting for you to show me anything i posted that isn't factually correct

everyone wasn't willing to take the risk

do you think all the blacks should have left the south?

maybe tripping on brain-damage

 

the south is looked upon that way because of ignorant people who have never actually been here,much less lived here, and only know what they have seen on tv and think that the south hasnt changed from what happened 60-100+ years ago. Its a stigma that sticks because of truly uneducated people. Being from Los Angeles i deal with this type of ignorance every single time i go back.

Seriously its pretty pathetic, everytime i go back to California i have to explain to the so called "intellectuals" that the South is not just a bunch of redneck hillbillies and covered with farms. Trust me, they actually believe the majority of people live in brokedown huts and raise pigs. They are shocked to find out that the south is much more diverse than the west or east coast's, and that the south has things like Walmart and Starbucks.

When i let them know that there are more interracial couples out here than their are out in Cali they are simply flabbergasted, they look as if they got slapped in the face by a shovel while at the same time got a hot poker up their ass. These people actually ask question like "Do you guys have room service?" , "There are mansions in Memphis?" .

The people who believe in the stereotype of the south are nothing but seriously ill informed people that have no clue of what truly goes on outside of their little bubble of utopia they believe they live in. And to be honest, there are a ton of people who are that ill informed.

 

While it is true that diversity can often lead to greater amounts of racial conflict, I believe the answer to your question is best shown by looking at how many voting districts in the South are still under observation from the Voting Rights Act.

 

I live in the south and I raise a few pigs...and chickens....have a large garden. But I do not hate black people...or Jews...or any other ethnic group for that matter.

And i was born in the north and moved south...so i could raise pigs...chickens...have a large garden...and not have to go through ninety miles of red tape to do it. People leave me alone to do what I want to do... and stay out of my business...I like that. And if you have trouble people will offer a hand.
You never see someone stuck on the side of the road without someone offering to help.

I love the south....and its warm most of the time.

 

Has SpaceCricket ever explained why he thinks the South is inherently racist?

Has he ever been to the South?

Racism exists virtually everywhere. Being a racist is far more about choosing to feel superior to those they think aren't like they are, then about where they live.

 

I have found much more racism in the north than in the south but it is different. In the south racism is on the surface and in the north it is hidden and much more hatefull.

People in the south have learned to get along because we work with each other every day. And the best way to defete racism is for people to work together.

Now...usually...on the job...if an errand needs to be run it will be the black man that does it. It is a cultural thing more than racism I think. But it still happens...but no one complains.

 

I remember back in junior high when one of my best friends went back to California to visit for the summer after being down here in Texas for the school year, and the people in Cali all asked him if he rode horses to school. They were shocked that we had paved roads and school buses. Apparently blue states really are that uneducated.

 

Lol trust me i know.

 

what a joke

 

Texas gave us George Bush so, believing folks from Texas are not the brightest bulbs in the pack ain't that much of a stretch really.

 

Look, you can get butt-hurt about this if you want, but we're merely pointing things out that some people either might not be aware of or might not want to admit. This does happen. And it's not even that uncommon. As liberals love to spout in their rhetoric, most prejudice comes from ignorance. If they understood the irony that they, themselves, are quite guilty of this, we might be able to communicate better as a nation.

 

You're right, you just didnt specify the burbs is what you were talking about. I didnt think there was a conspiracy either.

 

Wow, way off target. Some people only equate blacks with American slavery and American slavery with only blacks. I am trying to expand your mind and have you think past what the white guilt trip public school system teaches and see that whites, blacks, brown, red, yellow, EVERY RACE in America was a slave.

 

Anyone mention that the South has less hate crimes per capita then the midwest, west coast, or the North east? They do. The South has had its race fight. We are done with it now. Republicans are winning and Dixiecrats dying. Racism, discrimination all dying here now as Republicans win, and growing everywhere else as Democrats push the class warfare line. When you have reached a high crime neighborhood, and you see racism, poverty, hookers and crackheads etc... look up who runs the town. 9 out of 10 times it is a Democrat.

 

I think that if people wanted to make it on their own and be well paid for their labor, they will move where ever they want. People right now arent moving to TX with huge amounts of money saved up, they are going because TX offers a better opportunity than the liberal bastions of failure are offering. People dont just move on a whim cause they have the cash, usually the move because where they are at is crap and/or not safe for them anymore.

 

Why does that matter? When have you ever know the federal government to give up power over the states?

 

He's brighter than John Kerry.

 

Government approved chattel slavery was exclusively a black thing for hundreds of years in America.

 

This is the new thing, where demorcats want to associate themselves with the great problems they have caused others in the past, so now everyone who works for money is a "wage slave" etc...

 

No it wasnt. The constitution didnt say only black slaves were considered 2/3ds of a person, it said just "slaves".

 

The constitution never used the word "slaves" - but almost without exception, the slavery practiced, chattel slavery, where one's children, and children's children would be bonded forever, was exclusively a "negro" thing.

This was before and after we became the United States of America.