I have travelled to the South since my childhood four decades ago (sadly I live right next to Detroit)and have seen first hand how people get along there. It is not free of racism, nowhere is, but on a day-to-day basis there is less of an impact than there is in Detroit or Chicago.
The mental image held by the Boston elite is still that of police dogs and fire-hoses from the sixties. Never mind that in the 60′s the public officers ordering the assaults on blacks were uniformly Democrats. This is stunningly far from the case today. I see far greater self-segregation in the People’s Liberal Heaven of Michigan than I see when travelling in the Old South.
Maybe those iliterate Jesus freaks took the words in the Bible and put them into action. I know the godless commies up here in Michigan just took the money from Federal programs and sat on their hands.
