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You need to bone up on your history a little bit. Blacks had the screws put to them every where they lived until about the mid 60's. There have been far more blacks killed in the North in race riots than were ever lynched in the South. Actually probably as many blacks were lynched in the North as they were in the South. The KKK was every where.

I live in Georgia and also grew up during segregation. Two different systems did not make much sense to me. I am from a small town and we only had a tent for a movie theater. We all went in the tent that had a rope down the middle of it. The whites sat on one side and the blacks sat on the other side. The funny thing is we use to talk back and forth over the rope all the time. The doctor's office had two different waiting rooms but went into the same doctor's office. My family had a black woman that worked for us from the time she was 14 till her mid 70's when my mother's generation started dying out. She would have to take me to the doctor all the time when I got hurt. When she could hear me yelling in pain in Doc's office she would be right through the door. I was asked several years ago to give her eulogy at the black church where she was buried. When I finished there was not a dry eye in the church to include me then the entire congregation stood up and applauded.

When I went in the army I was stationed in the North. I was applaud to see how blacks were treated up there. It would have never been allowed where I lived. Maybe where I lived was not an over all representation of the South, but if you ever came down here and talked to some of the older blacks who lived here, you might be surprised to learn that if they were being treated badly by what we called white trash, all they had to do was go complain to the local KKK and they would help them out.

I grew up in the segregated north in the 50s-60s. The segregation was economic and residential. Anyone ate wherever, shopped wherever, went to school where they lived. There were exceptions of the country club variety but the reason the south was targeted was because that's where the epicenter of the problem was.

This thread is about the various CSA flags and the different ways people react to them. As such I stand by my previous comments.