I have always noted that publicly professed attitudes in the North, Boston is my experience, are much more favorable to Negroes than in the South but personal relations in the South tend to be much less acrimonious. Southern white men who even use the old sterotype language are more apt to have personal Negro friends than Northerners do. That excepts the hard inner cores of the cities but the cities in the Southland are long term Democrat strongholds as they are in the North.
Ain’t it amazin’? My great grandfather was a confederate soldier, my father was born in ‘13 and as a boy he knew my great grandfather. My dad used to talk about gatherings of confederate veterans when he was a child, he would use the “n word” regularly and often but had he seen me mistreat a black person he would have been far more likely to kick my tail than if he saw me do the same thing to a white person. I never saw him be anything but kind and respectful to black people and my mother was the same.