[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.

[warchild9]

I live in Cary, North Carolina, a town made up of 90% Yankees (at least). It's the whitest place I've ever lived (I grew up in a rural NC county which was 50/50 white/black, at least when I was a kid). When you mention to them that nearby Durham, which is heavily black, has some better housing values than this over-priced place, they have shiver fits.

[wardaddy]

That's because most Yankees outside of urban areas or from middle class and up have not had the experience living with blacks that Southerners have....particularly Deep South folk.