Just out of curiosity, is that your response to everything? I know you have claimed otherwise, but your track record speaks for itself. Whenever it is pointed out that the yankees did something wrong, you respond "well, the south did it too." Whenever it is pointed out that Sherman left hundreds of miles of burnt cities behind him, you respond "well, the south burnt a single town in pennsylvania." If this is indeed truly how you think, it is indicative that your sole concept of morality extends from some arbitrarily erected relationship you have drawn between north and south. And quite frankly, I find that very sad and deserving of pity.
Save your pity, I doubt that it is sincere anyway. I point out the south's many failings when you sothron types start hammering away at the south for problems that were worse in the south, just to provide balance. If billbears wants to paint the North as racist without mentioning worse practices down south then he is free to do so, but I will challenge his implication that the North had some sort of monopoly on racist laws. I don't deny the racist practices in the North. I do believe, and I feel that the record shows, that as bad as things were up North they were as bad or worse down south. Sorry if being reminded of that offends you.