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>>I've always heard liberal whiney babies reference the supposed anti-semitism crap about the South, blah, blah.
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Let's be frank - there is plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment in the South.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist church confused as to how God could love the Jews in the bible but all the good Christians looked down on them.

Fortunately I was ignorant of Jewish last names and didn't realize that a quarter of my school was Jewish.. by the time I figured it out, it was impossible for me to stereotype since the Jewish students were just like everybody else - mostly nice but some not so nice, mostly smart but some not so smart, some athletic, some not.... everybody should be so lucky as I was.

Let's be frank - there is plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment in the South

I could not disagree more.

What kind of school did you go to in the South that was 25% Jewish?

Your's is the first South-critical post on a Southern thread...we went 73 before your's. A record I'd bet.

This article exemplifies what I've tried to explain to non-Southern Jews for 30 years.

I now live in Nashville which has a large Jewish community and am unaware of any exceptional negativity towards Jews period. In my hometown of Jackson Mississippi, my SBC church never encouraged "all good Christians to look down on them". When the Klan got edgy with liberal Jews during the Civil Rights era 40-50 years ago, that caused most middle and upper-middle class Christians to denounce violence or the talk of it towards Jews and accelerated the Klan's dive into oblivion.

I lived thru all that and I'm sorry your experience whenever it was had a negative impact on you. I'm also glad experiences such as your's were the exception rather than the rule.

Southern goys hold no more generalized views about Jews than anywhere else but being Southern, they are more polite about it in any event.

The Antebellum South could be argued as the first truly free existence for Jews since the diaspora. They had freedoms many had never experienced in Europe.

I'm not sure what crowd you were running with, but I went to the same school and probably grew up in the same neighborhoods, and I recall ZERO anti-Jewish sentiment. A good friend of my mom's had her baby two days after mom had me, Suzie and I basically grew up together and were best friends all through school until her family moved to Maryland while we were in high school. She was Jewish. So what. Of my good friends in high school, one was Catholic, two Jewish, a couple of Presbys and a Baptist, and one prided herself on being an agnostic. It just didn't matter. Maybe we all had exceptionally enlightened parents, but I don't think so.

I was making an observation from what I've seen or heard. I've lived in Texas and Alabama. For instance, I lived in one small Texas town that had a fairly large Jewish community. Two of my best friends from school there were Jewish kids. We were just buddies. We played ball, built forts and sometimes argued. I hated one Jewish kid there, but that was because he was an -s-hole, not because of his family's faith. I have seen bigotry toward black folks, but never toward Jews in my life in the South.

Let's be frank - there is plenty of anti-Jewish sentiment in the South.

Let's be frank - there's less anti-Jewish sentiment in the South than there is anywhere else in the country.

You think you have a unique perspective. You don't. My elementary school (a public school in Dekalb County) was at least 70% Jewish and my high school was at least 50% Jewish. I spent the night at these peoples' houses, put on the yarmulke and went to countless Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs with my family (and my father was an ordained Southern Baptist minister), went to dinner with them, went swimming at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center, played music in rock bands with these kids (the "manager" for one of these groups is now the president of Turner Network Television) and there was NEVER, I repeat NEVER, anything resembling a feeling of animosity or resentment or prejudice between any of the Gentile kids and the Jewish kids (or the Gentile parents and the Jewish parents) that I ever knew.

I have been involved in religious/cultural events at Congregation Beth Jacob and received special commendation for my participation , and I count this as my highest personal honor. This is due to my upbringing, which is both Southern and Southern Baptist. The churches my father led in Atlanta were comprised of people who did not look down upon Jews, but who looked up to them and their families and their traditions as pillars of American society.

This high regard for Jews has been the norm among every Southern Baptist congregation I have ever visited.

The only anti-Semites I know today are all Midwestern liberals.