Seems to me if people were really worried about the possibility of being thought of as racists, they would stay far away from the type rhetoric that could logically be implied as racist? I know guys I went to college with in Georgia would get all pissed off about "Yankees" calling Southerners "rednecks" but then they would go out that night and watch professional wrestling and yell at the TV and crush beer cans on their face while starting fights with their underwear over their head. The next Monday when they were ranting about people calling them "rednecks" I took their concerns a little less seriously.