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Old 12-16-2019, 10:56 PM
 
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Couldn't agree with you more. As someone who grew up in one of the largest and most diverse North American cities, I've always said that immigrants (and 1st gens) of any race or ethnicity are the worst bigots I've ever known, and I say that as a child of European immigrants.

Having said that, I now realize after over 8 years in TN that when people talk about racism in the South, they're often talking about black on white racism. Yes, it exists, and in my experience, it's worse here than it is up north. I can understand why that would be the case, but it's hard not to notice it.
Hold on, what? Partiality or bigotry would probably hurt feelings but it doesn't faze the life of a so-called black person... The numbers aren't in the favor of a "black" person.
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Old 12-17-2019, 12:05 AM
 
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Having said that, I now realize after over 8 years in TN that when people talk about racism in the South, they're often talking about black on white racism.
Ok I'll bite. Who exactly is "people"?

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Yes, it exists, and in my experience, it's worse here than it is up north. I can understand why that would be the case, but it's hard not to notice it.
I'd ask for examples of this pervasive black on white racism that "people" are talking about, but I don't think I should. But I'll say that Black homeowners in Nashville having a few choice words for persistent White folks calling and knocking on their doors offering to buy their homes for pennies on the dollar doesn't count.
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Old 12-17-2019, 07:35 AM
 
Location: NC But Soon, The Desert
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A middle-class or working-class person from Massachusetts or Rhode Island is going to be, on average, much more overtly racist than any person you will ever meet in the South. Remember, most people from the American South are Protestant, and as a general rule, Protestant people tend to be more demure than Catholic people, even accounting for the implications of Scotch-Irish ancestry and Southern hospitality. You have got to be kidding me if you think white Southerners are more than racist than Italian-Americans and other “white ethnics” from the Northeast.

Several years ago, an Italian-American woman in Cheektowaga, NY was caught cursing and hollering at a black man outside of a Dollar General store on videotape. Sadly, the woman kept using the “N-word” over and over again. Of course, the video recording was posted to YouTube and blasted all over social media. That woman is a good example of the type of person I unfortunately grew up around in working class areas of Rhode Island.
I agree, I've met plenty of Northeast transplants here with Irish, Italian and Jewish ancestry and the first two types were the worst for racism. The Jewish people were nice, at least to me. The Italian types were more horrible than the Irish, as far as intolerance is concerned.
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Old 12-17-2019, 07:44 AM
 
Location: NC But Soon, The Desert
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I was born and raised in the South and yes, there is still racism, segregation, and division along ethnic lines here. It's not limited to the older generations either. My fiance is White, and his entire family is bigoted, even Gen Z, and I fear that his little nephew will grow up the same way unfortunately. I'm not going to lie and state that some members of my family are free of prejudices because they're not. However, I never hear them call other races & ethnic groups by slurs the way I have heard my fiance's mom, stepdad & half sister refer to minorities when they thought I didn't hear them.
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Old 12-17-2019, 08:47 AM
 
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I was born and raised in the South and yes, there is still racism, segregation, and division along ethnic lines here. It's not limited to the older generations either. My fiance is White, and his entire family is bigoted, even Gen Z, and I fear that his little nephew will grow up the same way unfortunately. I'm not going to lie and state that some members of my family are free of prejudices because they're not. However, I never hear them call other races & ethnic groups by slurs the way I have heard my fiance's mom, stepdad & half sister refer to minorities when they thought I didn't hear them.
Sounds like quite the family you'll be marrying into.
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Old 12-17-2019, 08:57 AM
 
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I was born and raised in the South and yes, there is still racism, segregation, and division along ethnic lines here. It's not limited to the older generations either. My fiance is White, and his entire family is bigoted, even Gen Z, and I fear that his little nephew will grow up the same way unfortunately. I'm not going to lie and state that some members of my family are free of prejudices because they're not. However, I never hear them call other races & ethnic groups by slurs the way I have heard my fiance's mom, stepdad & half sister refer to minorities when they thought I didn't hear them.
I grew up in Texas and had some classmates who's grandparents had KKK robes. I mean, they weren't racist, but just pointing out we aren't that far removed from racism. In some ways, it is worse now, in others, better.

All that being said, some of the most racist people I've met happen to be Asian.
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