[Fledermaus]

Some of the worst forms of racism I've ever seen or noticed was never living my life in the South, but in visiting places like Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Cincinatti, etc.

The first ten years of my life were spent in the 60's living in Southern California. For two years we lived in a suburb of LA and the racism against blacks, Jews, the Polish, and the Asians in our area was awful. My DEMOCRAT parents and grandparents used words like "nigger, hymie, pollack and slanty-eyed bastards" all the time.

Just think how surprised I was at 18 when I informed my parents I voted Republican and then in 1980 for Reagan. They said I was voting for the party of bigots.

[PeaRidge]

I never heard those slurs until I got to college and met people from the places you mention.