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Funny how the South is labeled as racist. Google must have been using RobertN's searches.

and when you look up "race riots" in Wikipedia. only 3 of the 13 major race riots from 1980 is from west and north of the Mason-Dixon line...

Maybe so, LL. But it seemed like Detroit's lasted for most of the 1960s...

and Detroit is NOT Southern...but the South gets the stereotype blame

That's because the racial prejudice is out in the open, while northern prejudices tend to be shown in much more subtle ways...

(08-17-2012 10:58 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: [ -> ]That's because the racial prejudice is out in the open, while northern prejudices tend to be shown in much more subtle ways...

Psssh, be Polish in New York and go to an Italian neighborhood.

racism seems pretty universal.

We've been taught all through history to fear that which we don't know, the different, those who stand out...

Is it any surprise that anyone who is different in color, attitudes, or anything else than the rest is hated?

(08-18-2012 08:04 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: [ -> ]We've been taught all through history to fear that which we don't know, the different, those who stand out...

Is it any surprise that anyone who is different in color, attitudes, or anything else than the rest is hated?

Fail. We have not been taught through all history to fear that which we don't know.

Fact is that all peoples like to self-assimilate.

Another fact is that people are inclined to hate.

(08-18-2012 11:27 AM)DrTorch Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-18-2012 08:04 AM)bitcruncher Wrote: [ -> ]We've been taught all through history to fear that which we don't know, the different, those who stand out...

Is it any surprise that anyone who is different in color, attitudes, or anything else than the rest is hated?

Fail. We have not been taught through all history to fear that which we don't know.

Fact is that all peoples like to self-assimilate.

Another fact is that people are inclined to hate.

Think so, Dr. Torch? In prehistoric times, anyone not of the group was a threat. It didn't matter if it was another human, or a large predator. They took food from the group, and their survival depended on their food sources...

That's the basis for that sort of thinking...