I am a Georgia native that travels the eastern US for a living. Have done many a job in Jersey...NYC...Chicago..etc. You got your claim ass backwards...Dunno if you've ever been down here in the dirty south...but Newark is segregated...like most urban areas in the North....not down south...we actually live amongst each other. I'd bet many NYC folks never see black people up close till they hit their twenties. Most of the black kids I grew up with in 1970's country ass Georgia were better off than I was...we ate with them..they ate with us. We all played on the same teams...and fought on the same side when the city boys from Atlanta would come starting crap.
Just a FYI...in case you actually paid a visit down here so the shock wouldn't hit so hard.
In my post I maintain in my post that NJ is AT LEAST AS SEGREGATED as the South; I believe you are misunderstanding what I posted.