I'm a Cali native with a rather amusing story.In 1965,I took a class at College of San Mateo caled The South and the Negro with an old socialist professor from Finland,very dogmatic but a pretty decent guy really.Well,our semester assignment was to subscribe to a Deep South newspaper and then report back to class on all the racist reporting and degredation of the black community.
I chose a little town in Alabama caled Chidersburg.I found NO racially biased reporting regarding "Negroes".Thats because there were NO stories about identified Negroes in this paper!Yes,the town was about a quarter black but I guess in a sense neglect by omission was racist in itself.
The irony was that at my college at the time there were only about a hundred black students and the dropout rate was huge.My socialist professor never seemed to commnent on that aspect of Northern racism.