At the micro level, the racists in the south are now the ones with dark skin. Just like everywhere else in this country.
Well these are the states that had massive numbers of slave owners in the 1800’s and attitudes have been passed down from generation to generaion To quote Hillary, “What difference does it make.!”
If you keep picking at a scab the wound never heals.
But then, that is the point of the constant bombardment of stories about race from the media and other lefties.
Isn’t it?
Let me ask my chained up field slave his opinion, right after I have sex with my house keeper.
Mother Jones is an extreme left website. I trust nothing they publish there.
There is lots of evidence that black folk are racist against others.
Black folk are even racist against other blacks, noting how some of them are darker than others.
Physician, heal thyself. Blacks today could learn a lot from Dr. King about not judging each other by the color of their skin. That is, those blacks who have not skidded into the baby mama culture and the ghetto gang culture. Dr. King is turning in his grave at the state of much of black America.
Notice that only non-blacks were polled. For a true study, the professors should have measured racism with the demographic makeup.
Of course, the answer would have not justified their preconceived notion. So, by all means continue The War of Yankee Aggression.
This is comparing apples to oranges.
The north has not had the black population density that the south has. If one lives in an area of low black population, he is not nearly as likely to be as prejudiced as one who lives in high density black areas, sometimes as high as 50+%.
I grew up in Memphis when it was 60w/40b. It was a very well run city with many awards, such as the nations best fire department, and all three utilities, light, gas, and water under one roof.
Now it is 60b/40w. The blacks have taken over all elements of government, basically destroying the city.
I have been told that all three utility systems have been sold off to companies outside the state.
The Votings Rights law should be applied equally in the North and the South and not in the South alone.
In my experience, having only visited South Carolina, I can safely say minorities in my home state of NJ are DEFINITELY more racist.
I’ve lived in a lot of places—North and South, East and West, small towns, fancy suburbs, inner-city slum, chic urban neighborhoods, mountain village, farms, working-class neighborhood. In my experience the North is far more racist than the South, in overt actions, in speech, and in the “soft racism of low expectations.” This is mediated by the fact that there are simply more white liberals in the North, and more serious, believing Christians in the South, both black and white. Yes, there are probably more people in the South who use the N word openly. But for the most part, blacks and whites in the South get along more amicably and think about racial differences less.
I dismiss statistics that say otherwise. Most such statistics are generated by leftist “researchers” whose study design, methodology, peer review, and analysis leave much to be desired.
As a lifelong southerner it has been my observation that some northerner s learned all the think they know about the south from watching “Roots” and reading “Tobacco Road”.
Until air conditioning made its way south, you couldn’t find a Yankee with 500 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line.
From spending time around guys from many states (Air Force) I have noticed that many Northerners base their opinion of Southerners based on the accent alone. They think themselves all-knowing that people who don’t sound like them are somehow, less intelligent. Profiling, anyone?
Insofar as slavery goes, that was a loooong time ago. And even though “progressives” like to fear-mongering people that we are trying to bring back slavery, or even “Jim Crowe” laws, it’s simply a canard to justify race-baiting.
Southern attitudes are based on individuality, whereas up North the tendency is “groupthink”. Down here we accept, or reject, persons of any color based on their personality, attitude, and honor...not just because some community organizer says we “must” like and/or accept them as a person.
Most Southerners now would not partake in slavery if they legalized again. It’s not worth it.
So, if “racism” is to be defined as not accepting blacks on a group basis, I guess we are more “racist”. But, percentage-wise, I know and like as many black people I’ve met, as white. It’s the individual, not the color, that makes the difference.
Now, I’ll let the author of this article get back to his stereotyping...
The critical problem with this study is that it has no correction factor for the truth.
We know that black people are convicted of crimes far more than other groups of people, so how is it racist if honest people's opinion reflects that fact?
Similarly, all measures of racial differences in intelligence indicate that black people, as a group, do less well on intelligence tests. So for a person to reflect that fact in their opinion does not make them racists.
The unstated assumption in the “study” is that all racial groups are the same in intelligence, trustworthiness, and work ethic.
I find it hard to believe that any honest person would claim that that assumption is true.
Racism has always followed the Democratic Party, just look at the Party’s history. There may be racist in the Republican Party (and I blame Liberal Republicans for this), but it has always been that equal rights before the law has been the institution strived for by the base. Liberalism breeds racism, Christian Conservatism does not. Follow these two philosophies to where they migrated and you will see where the racists are.
The biggest “racists” are the people who hate the South, several post on FR. Liberal trolls, nothing more.
Marge Shott.
For what it’s worth, the two most racist towns I’ve ever been to were in Michigan and Ohio respectively.
In one I saw a mob assemble, hurling obscenities and rocks at a Black woman in her car, telling her to “get out of town!”
In the other the Black manager of a local store had to be moved out of town by his company for his own safety after receiving numerous death threats.
Been to Alabama several times. Did not get anything close to the same vibe.
Yes I have a comment! I am a certified behavior bigot. If you act like a sub-human then I dislike you, won’t hire you, won’t patronize your business and would rather you go away.
When a large percentage of a group behave in a low class manner it is safe to say we are better off without the group.
Those who want to be contributors and refuse the plantation mentality of victimhood are A-OK in my book. The rest of you P— off and get out of the way. You’re nothing but leaches and a detriment to society.
No amount a diversity training, affirmative action, sharia law... can make a civilized human out of an animal.
Screw 'em.
I read until I got my key question answered: What were the criteria for racism?
“Elmendorf and Spencer used data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey, which asked non-blacks to rank their own racial group and blacks regarding intelligence, trustworthiness, and work ethic.”
We need to consider that maybe there are actual statistically differences between races. If some accurately point them out (perhaps because they have more real world experience to hold a confident enough opinion to answer honestly in spite of the clear social stigma to state the truth) we shouldn’t define that as racism.
And those actual differences might differ based on region (blacks whose ambitious parents left the low-opportunity south for jobs up north might carry on the extra ambition, while those content to live in poverty and warm winters might not). Same for Chinese and some Southeast Asians, those whose ancestors escaped communism might be carrying the genes or culture of resourcefulness, compared to those who remained, giving us the possibly false impression that Asians are smarter.