But when I hear people make comments that it's worse in the South than in the North or the West, I have to disagree. There is every bit as much racism in Illinois or New York or California as there is in Alabama, you just don't hear it or see it until the racists feel threatened. Even then, it's couched in code, and practiced in the secrecy of the voting booth.
That's definitely a fair point, and I apologize if I implied the South is more racist overall. I guess what I meant was that, if people are VOCAL about not wanting to vote for a black guy in the Northeast, they might well be even MORE vocal about it down south. (I was going to say "past the Mason-Dixon Line," but then I remembered that I actually live south of that line. {g})
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Date: 2008-11-04 11:58 pm (UTC)That's definitely a fair point, and I apologize if I implied the South is more racist overall. I guess what I meant was that, if people are VOCAL about not wanting to vote for a black guy in the Northeast, they might well be even MORE vocal about it down south. (I was going to say "past the Mason-Dixon Line," but then I remembered that I actually live south of that line. {g})