Yes, de facto versus de jure discrimination. Many areas around here are still patterened after such de facto discrimination. No one would sell a house to a black in certain neighborhoods.
I didn’t mean to imply that racism is a southern only thing, just that when it is done in a de jure way, it hinders and taints the law in a way that the hypocrisy of de facto racism doesn’t
I know - it just gets old when some people act as if northern states were angelic in the discussion