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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.

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.

I found my job first, my church second, and my home third in the process of relocating my family to Durham from Central Virginia. For me, a proud legacy of black achievement makes Durham a great place. People just seem to be friendlier, down here, across the ethnic divide. We have acquired more good friends of other ethnicities here, in two years, than we were able to collect in 20 years in Virginia.

(Of course, Roanoke VA is more of a rust-belt industrial city accidently stranded in the South.)