[fredhead]

I grew up in NC, started school in 1965 the same year the schools were desegregated. some of my beat friends from school were the black kids who lived down the road. The adults got along good as well.

Of course, this was in the country, not the city.

[HotHunt]

I live in the South now, in the county with the most blacks in north central Florida. We do live in rural area on a 30-acre farm. But my wife and I interact with plenty of black neighbors and friends without so much as an inkling of racial strife. Many blacks around here are appalled at what is going on in the cities with the blacks rioting and killing each other in Chicago and Detroit, etc.

The South is used to racial integration and interaction. In my experience, having lived all around these United States over the years, that it is the folks in the north, especially the northeast, who who don't like integration. They'll be in for a real shock when the value of their homes plummet when Obama's HUD minions force some subsidized Section 8 housing to be built next door to them. Out here in the country, people don't seem to care, or at least, don't make a big deal about living among various races.