[Space Wrangler]

You would be very hard-pressed to find more viciously racist people than in the very bastions of "liberalism" and "progressive thinking". New York, and New England come to mind. Sure these same people will espouse the virtues of equality at the top of their lungs, but watch what happens if a black family moves in next door. These people are the worst kind of hypocrites. I am a southern, protestant, white male. I must be the lowest form of scum to these people.

[bourbon]

"hatred of Southern whites had always been a stronger motive [among Northerners] for reform than sympathy for Southern blacks." --Clyde Wilson.

just tossing that comment out there for discussion.

[Middle Man]

"You would be very hard-pressed to find more viciously racist people than in the very bastions of "liberalism" and "progressive thinking".

When we relocated to the South after five years' absence, our realtor told us in passing (althought she said she would officially deny ever saying it if confronted) that her clients who were Yankee transplants were only interested in housing in the lily-whitest suburbs. After years of dealing with them, our agent said she didn't even bother showing Yankees areas of town with the slightest "ethnicity" anymore. Total hypocrites.

[cynicom]

Space...

As an ex-NY er, you are absolutely right. NYC is populated with 9 million bigots, racists and snooty elitists. Their holier than thou attitude is all sham.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Raised in various parts of the South, and later spent several years in the Northeast. By far the most openly racists comments I heard was up North. Look at the demographics, there is not a more segregated area of the country than the Northeast.

[backhoe]

but watch what happens if a black family moves in next door. These people are the worst kind of hypocrites

That's what gets me- I sure get tired of being tarred as a racist, homophobic, ( fill in the blank ) extremist by people who don't know a daggone thing about me except that I'm a conservative from South Georgia.

The guy across the street from me is a black guy who builds houses. He's a good neighbor...
The gal next door, ahem! preferrs women, if you get my drift. She's a good neighbor...
But those white folks across the street who like to get likkered up & hoot & holler.... well, I wouldn't mind if they'd move on down the road.