Is racism in the southern U.S. different than other parts of the country?

In my opinion not really its not like they make it seem on TV.
I was born and raised in Texas and for the past 3 years I have been traveling the country to places big and small every week.

In the South it is much like everywhere else. Lots of interracial couples (I don't consider this a metric against racisim but some do).
Most larger cities in the South are extremely diverse. Houston has one of the largest Nigerian populations in the world outside of Nigeria. 64% of San Antonio is Latino because afterall this was the capital of Tejas when it was part of Mexico.
You can't just believe propaganda.
Florida is just as diverse. You are just as likely to hear Cuban Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Hatian Creole as you are English when you walk down the street in Miami but the South is Southern.

This means that most white people have some ancestors that fought in the Civil War for the South and they are probably proud of it.
In states like Alabama and Mississippi the Confederate flag flies everywhere but not all people who fly the flag are racist.
Old Plantations are everywhere and yes there are a large group of people that would prefer that minorities remain in "their place".
Most people are friendly and kind.
If you look at all of the shooting of innocent black people in the news by the police most of these didn't happen in the South. I personally think that racism is everywhere pretty much equally.
It just had a different flavor and style depending on where you are from.

every times the black went to war as in ww2 and vietnam war . they came back with the idea if they died for the usa they wanted equal rights.

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now for woman it was ww2 and they started to work for the war effort . and they wanted equal rights also.

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At first, women weren’t always welcomed into the workplace. They received less pay and some men looked down on them and felt they weren’t up to handling a “man’s job.” They often faced sexual harassment, long hours and dangerous working conditions. and there pay is still not equal today

Humans are trash. When there's no racism against race there's against ethnic groups and people from certain religions and faiths. I'm not American but I noticed that specifically in the Mideast.

I am a white senior citizen who grew up in Brooklyn, NY in the 40s and 50s. There was clear covert segregation. When Brooklyn College, my alma mater, hired a black professor, he could not find housing near the college! We cheered Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and many other black baseball heros and thought we were very liberal, but were blind to the systemic racism that existed! There were no signs in stores or restaurants but, clearly, there were very few blacks in them.

I would like to shake the alt-right into understanding what systemic racist am is!

I'm from the West Coast but live in Savannah, GA now. I can tell you that this is the most integrated neighborhood I've ever lived in, with a mix of white, Black, East Asian, and South Asian. The real divide is between urban and rural. It's a different world when you go out of town a ways. But it's the same in rural California, maybe more so. Phil Hendrie said that there are more racist redneck hillbillies in California than in the entire South combined. The entire population of Georgia would barely make a dent in Los Angeles County.

The KKK ruled Denver colo a century ago. Here’s how the hate group’s legacy is still being felt in 2021.
About a third of Denver’s white, U.S.-born men were part of the Ku Klux Klan at its height in Colorado

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We pulled imto a tiny convenience store at a country crossroads in Louisiana. While I waited in the car a pickup pulled in next to us. A white guy was driving. An African-American guy was passenger.

I didn't see a beating taking place, or even a chewing-out. But the difference in their stance, their expression, their carriage -- made me cry

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yes racism in the south is a lot worse

Yes! Especially In small redneck towns, they get away with a lot of racist things. Take Harrison Arkansas for example. That’s literally the kkk headquarters. And then my tiny redneck town I had to go to school in, the schoolbard there was racist towards the small Hispanic population that they antagonized. And so it got around that my school district was racist. And even to this day when I tell people I grew up in that tiny redneck town they can’t believe it because they hear a lot of racism coming out of it but it was mainly towards Hispanic people because there wasn’t any black kids until I came I was literally the only black person in the school district for the longest time but I didn’t start to get treated differently until President Obama became President. And I felt so bad for all the minority students rather they were Hispanic, black, Asian, Marshallese what ever all those students who had to go to white school districts had it so bad.

It's long gone from the south.

Yes, because Jim Crow racism never really left the culture there. Of course there's racism everywhere, but there are definitely different forms depending on the region and culture.

It’s definitely a bit worse. In Vegas, nobody cared about interracial relationships. Back in Florida, people have staring problems, sometimes glaring problems, but are too chickenshit to say anything, even if you ask what the problem is. The common language of some of the old timers uses the hard-R a lot, in a ton of different phrases. It’s just a different world down here when it comes to race and the echoes of the past.

Yes. Down [b]South[/b] it's more hidden less systemic than the [b]North. [/b] I think that's because of the history and not wanting to be portrayed in a negative light. But up [b]North[/b], it's more apparent. You have states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin that carry a lot of [b]Jim Crow [/b] energy. Certain neighborhoods are deeply segregated. The police departments in those places are much more intrusive. There's a lot of clannishness. A lot of open out angry White Americans who are dealing with the same stuff that the South did during the Civil Rights era. It's changed. Most of the racial events down [b]South[/b] are few and far in between and are mainly isolated incidents. That's my take on this as a [b]Black[/b] American male. 🙂 🇺🇲

That’s what Biden and the democrats want people to believe. Does racism exist? Yes, no doubt and it’s not just in the south. Is it wide spread and enacted by laws? No.

As a Hispanic woman who grew up in Texas, yes.

Jim Crow era racism? Who told you this? Go into any restaurant or store in the South and you will see blacks, whites, Latinos, interracial people, just like in any other part of the country. Please don't listen to fake sh-t people try to brainwash you with.

I think it depends on where in the south, there are nasty pockets but in my travels I've found it was worse in the Midwest than in the south. With that being said most of my time in the south has been in the cities and not rural deep south where I think it's probably the worst

well. lets just say things are different "when nobody is looking"
there are still sundown towns.

I never heard the N word used in regular conversation until I started visiting in-laws (now ex in-laws) in North Carolina. Not Jim Crow but shows how comfortably ingrained into Southern Culture it can be.

You should ask a Democrat, as they know more about this than anyone, seeing as they were the racists during this era. The KKK were Democrats, and even though the Left likes to call white supremacists “the right,” they are actually on the Left. All you need to do is listen to Richard Spencer, to know their ideology aligns with the Democrats, not Conservatives. However, the Left always projects their own values (or lack of) onto the Right, just as they have with racism.

I was raised in Georgia and moved to Southeast Texas. Racism exists both places, but when I return to my hometown in Georgia, it is much worse. I am very uncomfortable there.

everyone is racist... but the difference seems to be that in the southern usa is that people are openly proud of their racism and not a little bit ashamed

You just happened to hear that, so now you have an excuse to make a bullshit proclamation, eh?

Jim Crow are laws enforcing racism. They haven't existed for a long time.

But you really didn't know that?🙄

Southern states still have the lowest literacy rates in the country, of course ignorance is going to be more prevalent in that region.

I’ve heard Alabama is extra special that way.

What does that even mean? 👀 following

if anything, in the south racism is more open and honest. they showed and told world exactly what they thought and believed. still doesnt make it acceptable.

I feel like America in general is just a racist country

Believe it or not, California had more Jim crow laws. Depends what part, southern Florida is basically the Spanish Caribbean or a tropical new York. The most blunt racism I faced was in California. I have lived in NYC, California and now Florida