The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness.
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
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