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What can I say? It's the south. They still think whites are superior than blacks.
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Blanket statements will always get you in trouble.
As someone who was born and raised in rural Alabama, AND who had a long term interracial relationship (white male, she was black) that started in the country high school that we both went to, here is my opinion as an expert witness. Most of the bigotry you'll encounter is perpetuated by the older generations, they're the ones who hold the political and administrative power and can push their agendas. In my generation and younger (I'm 24) there are ignorant people who cling to the old ways because they're too dumb or stubborn, but most are no different from you Northerners (damn Yankees
) as in they may not date people of another color themselves but they wouldn't say its wrong, or really even think anything of it when they see it, and might even do it if they found someone they were attracted to.
Anyway, I was raised in the deepest part of Alabama, the south corner that borders Florida and Georgia, and even there this segregated prom business would never fly. Sure many may have liked it to but there's just enough reasonable people to keep it from happening. For instance there was a story when I was in high school, 95 or 96, where a principal somewhere in northern Alabama wanted to ban interracial couples from going together to their prom...he got in all sorts of trouble and it was all over the media. So it both shocks me and makes me sad that this kind of thing still goes on here.
As for me I started dating my black gf my senior year, we went to every dance together and never caught flack from the school. Infact the only people that gave us any real trouble were our parents (again raised in the old skool ways) and these 2 rednecks in our class (idiots who only know how to hate). To all my friends we were just a couple who were in love. Infact we kind of got a celebrity status at the school, we were the first black/white couple to be out in the open I guess. We didn't do anything normal hs couples don't do but it was almost like people were cheering us on or something.
Anyway anyone else from the South wanna speak up on this?