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.
What no Gay map!
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nully ~ It means that when a black man walks into a Southern store, people merely glance at him, not watch him fearfully like a hawk.
Altura Ct. ~ Why a black man? Are whites subject to 'racism' also?
Because in a New England store or a Minnesota store a black man is more apt to be watched, and a white is merely glanced at. In the South, they get pretty much the same treatment.
Altura Ct. ~ It depends on the black man but for a large percentage of blacks the same profiling applies.
Of course! But the tendency is to be more wary of the unusual.
I know for people I work with and live around that is generally true but there are plenty of progressives in the South.
Yep, and plenty of level headed Minahoovians as well. That's why I said apt to not certain to, or always...