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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.

>> 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.<<

A private school in Atlanta

As for being South -critical - I am a proud Southerner but I try to be an honest one too. For example many of key clubs for business in Atlanta are not open to Jews to this day.

Apparently it is better here than other places though.

The Georgia Encyclopedia has a pretty balanced look at it -
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/HistoryArchaeology/TheProgressiveEraandWorldWarI/GroupsOrganizations-6&id=h-2731

This NY-raised Goy would like to put in his two cents:

For all the talk about NY being a "Jewish city" and metro area, it is actually VERY mixed. I should also mention that, at least among older folks, there was ALOT of anti-semitism among white Catholics, whether Irish, Italian, German, or Polish. Some of it was brought from the old country, some of it simple resentment of the meteoric rise of Jewish-Americans in American society relative to other ethnic groups. Jewish-Americans may talk of how they "loved" growing up around Italians, but they never knew what was said about the "mezzocristi" when they left the room.