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Originally Posted by sob
I just love it when people say things like "Whites are racist" and don't even comprehend the irony.
I'd like to hear the basis for your summation of white Southerners, too.
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The statement was originally saying that the vast majority of the white population of the south was racist. This is not a racist statement, any more than "Hispanics are 50% more likely to vote Republican". It's also true - look at the civil rights battles in the south, and the patterns of discrimination in the south after Reconstruction. That's not to say that a lot of Northerners weren't racist, too, but it was certainly more institutionalized in the south.
Read some history of the time, or some works by black authors on the post-war South.
Bingle