I recently saw a photo from a series of images on civil rights battles against segregation in the ‘South’ (part of the title). A couple of the images were of a public pool in Illinois that had been made ‘members only’ to circumvent desegregation. First time I heard that Illinois is part of the South.
Cairo, Illinois—a prime example of how racial strife can kill a community— closed its public pool rather than open it to blacks. Whites formed/joined a country club with a private pool. Blacks got to swim (and drown) in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Southern Illinois is much more of the South than the North.
Yes I think that the PC powers that be would prefer us all to believe segregation was only in the South. :-)