And anywhere else in the country with a "minority" population greater than 15-20%.
Sometimes the minority was a racial one, sometimes an ethnic one. Dislike of other groups has existed all over the world and throughout time.
The Deep South has no monopoly on bias or prejudice.
To hear liberals tell it, The South INVENTED racism, bigotry and prejudice. There were none of these in the north of the Mason-Dixon Line.................