re: #323 sattv4u2

Well said. As someone who spent most of the 1st 45 years of my life in Boston and the last 11 in Atlanta I can tell you are 100% spot on.

Here, the racists are outright and open about it (and in the very very tiny minority)
Back there the racism was much more covert but much more prevalent

The racisms in the North and the South are different. In the South, racist whites don’t care how close blacks get, as long as they don’t advance too far; in the North, racist whites don’t care how far blacks avance, so long as they don’t get too close.

This difference explains the paradox of blacks being elected to more and higher offices in white majority districts in the North, at the same time that their cities’ residential disticts are more starkly segregated than are Southern ones.