re: #734 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Just reread this…that incident happened in Massachusetts, not the south.
I’m well aware of the problems with busing and overall in Boston. I was living there when a white guy accused a black guy of having killed his wife. Police went nuts, rounding up young black men all over. Turned out, of course, the white guy had killed his own wife.
And yes, I’m aware there are no dubious trophies for being the best/worst racist. But there’s nothing wrong with comparing different regions of the country…we’re a huge and diverse nation (maybe the most diverse, at least by some metrics.)