>>122646458It's not all so clean cut as that, but basically yes. The biggest thing I think is that the South isn't the reputation that it gets. You're more likely to find a mixed church than someone harassing "darkies".
Understand that there's three breeds of "racism" in America.
There are actual "racists" who hate people for conditions of their birth that those people have no control over. Many of them are minorities.
Then there are people who are tired of the "ignorance and incompetence as virtues" culture but are mostly too ignorant themselves to express it in terms other than "race" and are in fact encouraged to express it in those terms to fan the flames. These are the overwhelming majority of people who are called "racist" today.
And then there's the dominant and most flagrant type of "racists", mostly white and liberal, who deep down believe themselves superior and so have the duty to elevate the noble savages, but who are incapable of reconciling this with the ideas about "race" that the talking heads on the TV tell them to have. They're essentially classical, colonial European "racists" but on a strict propaganda regime.
I've put "racist" and "race" in quotes here because these are misnomers and serve only to perpetuate the ignorance of all of these groups. African-Americans and Hispanics, the two largest perceived "races" outside of European Americans, are not actually races of people at all, they're ethnicities. But ethnic hatred doesn't have the same ring to it, and cultural hatred is acceptable in virtually every corner of the world.
Americans very rarely encounter true members of other races, like East Asians or Sub-Saharan Africans. Neither suffer from any significant racism and in fact on average are much better off in America than most Americans. Native Americans are probably the only race/sub-race who can claim to still be victims of any quantifiable negative racism.
