This simple fact bounces right off the heads of the willfully retarded.
1964 Southern Democrat: Hates commies, strongly pro states rights and Defense, Bible thumper, wants to keep darkies and fags in their place.
2014 Southern Republican: Hates commies, strongly pro states rights and Defense, Bible thumper, wants to keep darkies and fags in their place.
In that case, I find it odd that the South surpasses the rest of the country in many areas of integration and racial equality. According to 2003 report by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Virginia Beach, Charlotte, Nashville-Davidson, and Jacksonville were the four most integrated of the nation's fifty largest cities, with Memphis at number six.
Study shows Memphis among most integrated cities - Memphis Business Journal
And, while Northeastern and Midwest States have the highest black to white incarceration rates, Southern states tend to have a low disparity in incarceration rates tween blacks and whites relative to the rest of the country
http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_stateratesofincbyraceandethnicity.pdf
So, either you are using an "out of date lens" to look at the modern South or you're merely parroting partisan propaganda like the fake academic from yesterday, which does nothing to add to an honest discussion.