rI've worked in the rural south. I had no issues.
You're one of them, so yeah.
No, I'm not. I was a highly paid outsider coming in to make money, and then leave.
And everyone was quite nice and friendly.
You're white and of the same white male power structure point of view, insider.
Your assumption that whites are all the same is nothing but your demonstrating the limitations of your mind.
I was certainly an outsider, made welcome by friendly locals.
I didn't make the assumption, you did. I've lived in the south, deep and otherwise. All hominids are individuals and should be approached at first in that manner. As they reveal themelves over time via actions and associations, then, and only then, MAY some conclusions come to be drawn. I just stumbled onto this thread and saw you were saying you'd hung with folks in the south in response to someone else's "rednecks" type remark. Then YOU said YOU'D covered all that ground and could speak for/upon all southerners based upon YOUR exposure.
I doub't you should generalize like that either, but that's your conclusion, no?
Racism is american, not southern.
YIOSTHEOY made a generalization.
I pointed out that it was wrong.
Racism is not American, nor southern. It is a human trait.
One that has been pushed back here in the US for generations. At least among whites.
The black guy won the last two elections. The dems LOST when they nominated a white candidate.
Race doesn't seem to the problem whites have with the dems.