It means southerners are more apt to judge someone based on their individual character than the color of their skin, than a New Englander or a Minnesotan.
I means that when a black man walks into a Southern store, people merely glance at him, not watch him fearfully like a hawk.
It means that a Southerner hires a handyman based on how good a job he does, not because one expects extra points for being so progressive as to hire a black man.
And no one retires to the north!
It means southerners are more apt to judge someone based on their individual character than the color of their skin, than a New Englander or a Minnesotan.
For someone I know personally that is very true but otherwise not exactly. I profile for the same reason police do.
I means that when a black man walks into a Southern store, people merely glance at him, not watch him fearfully like a hawk.
Why a black man? Are whites subject to 'racism' also? It depends on the black man but for a large percentage of blacks the same profiling applies.
It means that a Southerner hires a handyman based on how good a job he does, not because one expects extra points for being so progressive as to hire a black man.
I know for people I work with and live around that is generally true but there are plenty of progressives in the South.
And you really think people fearfully watch black men like hawks in stores in other parts of the country? Get out more. Maybe nobody even glances up here any more.
A lot depends on the store, though. Jewelry stores are different from K-Mart, probably wherever you go in the country.