That's a little confusing. I'm pretty sure Southerners (or any Americans) back a century ago didn't "get past" anything racial.
Southerners get along fine with Southern blacks— so put that into the formula.
I guess "Southerners" means "Southern Whites." And that is the "formula." The other side of the coin is that young White and Black Northerners may get along with each other better than Southerners are willing to admit and they just might feel as out of place in a Southern city (or rural community) as Southerners, Black or White, would feel in a Northern city. At least many of the younger African-Americans that I've met didn't feel like Dixie was "home." A few did. Others didn't.
What gets left out, though, is that Harvard and Southie dislike each other more than most Northerners and Southerners do. That conflict has been going on even longer than the piddling Civil War has (unless the Civil War was simply the same conflict in another guise). Complaining that Harvard and Yale look down on you while looking down yourself on Southie, or Phillie, or Cleveland, or Brooklyn, or Bridgeport -- is playing a double game. Maybe it's better to admit that the old days of rich, arrogant Northerners and poor, victimized Southerners are gone for good.
Like to believe they are gone for good— but they are not. We don’t take it personal- and certainly aren’t victims, cause we run circles around the so called intelligentsia, who has not got a clue. It’s not a double game to know a snob from anywhere, southie, atlanta, nyc , hahvahd whatever, and whatever the basis of their bigotry. It isn’t N vs. S— it is globalism vs. sovereignty, and States vs an overwhelmingly useless federal gov.
Intellectual bigotry— After all it was a hotshot math whiz who gave us the derivatives algorithm that produced the subprime bubble crash. The kind of thing that comes from the arrogance of intellect coupled with fraudulent intent. Revisionist history of every stripe, including the original posting here is one more example- half truths. As said— the New South went way past all this years ago. States Rights remain as the central issue in our freedom as a nation- and apparently the victors decided long ago they can tell us what to do, being so smart and Progressive and all. They can’t. They are going to be reminded of it.
Appreciate the dialogue. Southern by the Grace of God. Deo Vindice.