I think it has more to do with economic opportunity. Alabama isn't a good place for a lot of blacks and whites because of this.
Again, I traveled North America for many years in my career. I've been to probably every major city (100,000+ population) in the US. The South certainly doesn't have the exclusive on racism. In fact, the most offensive comments I've heard weren't in the South.
agreed...I've heard from these same clients that poverty in the North is NOT the kind of poverty you find in the rural South. There are whole towns with mostly black and some poor white population that everyone seem to have forgotten after the civil rights movement. As a side note, I often wonder why big companies don't build factories there instead of overseas? I will also report that when my mother first came to this country, certain parts of the South were not nice to travel in. Now it's so very different. I don't see the liberals ever give that kind of credit to people.