I don't understand antisemitism. My mother's family was holocausted. Why? My mother grew up a piss poor country girl. She went to a one room schoolhouse.
She lined her coat in the wintertime with newspaper to help her keep warm. What do anti-semites think that all Jews have a secret key to the Rothchild's bank account? My mom worked in a paper mill from the age of 15. During WWII she worked in a Raytheon factory making vacuum tubes. Eventually she kept gettings educated in her spare time. She became an RN and a USAF officer. Both my parents were USAF officers.
I'm a Scots-Irish person through my dad. But I'm proud to be a 100% all-American mongrel.
The movie Driving Miss Daisy gave the best account of Southern Jews that I'm aware of. In the old days, days before Walmart, every town had a "Department Store" run by Jewish people. They were a precious part of our community and I NEVER heard an anti-Semetic remark growing up. Dan Aykroyd had the best line in that movie "those yankee Jews", making a distinction. LOL.
In fact the most anti-Semetic place I ever lived was in Montreal, Quebec, when I attended McGill University for a couple of semesters. I remember standing at a bus stop and some complete stranger pointed to someone and said "Look at that "G_d damn jew". I will just leave it at that. The anti-semitism in the classroom was just as bad.
Where I live now - a small city in Alabama - if I look at the names of the department stores downtown (long gone, of course) all the names are Jewish. They indeed ran all the southern dry goods stores and many were beloved by the citizenry. Where did they all go? It’s impossible to find a decent bagel down here!