Funny. We here in the south are constantly demonized for racism, when in fact, northern city dwellers are far, far more so.
An Englishman once said that Southerners dislike blacks as a group, but love them as individuals, while Northerners feel the reverse.
Um, I don’t think so.
What you have however is too many of those in the North believing that in order to demonstrate you yourself aren’t racist, you have to decry how irretrievably racist the rest of the country is.