Are SOUTHERNERS more racist than NORTHERNERS?

Question

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IN GENERAL
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The cumulative population of either NORTHERNERS .... or SOUTHERNERS

(all races of either)

'a person' - "but the north is no angel either. they didnt overtly help blacks and there is some animosity between some of the ethnicities there."

Here is a link for your reading pleasure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders

Answer 1

No. Don't generalize a group of people. 2D

Answer 2

mmmm yeah i'd say so but it goes both ways.
Blacks hate whites just as much!
I'm not racist so this is going to sound bad okay.
I asked over a dozen people why they are against black people and their answers were this:
They are tired of the street gangs and crimes.
They are tired of black neighborhoods bringing down good surrounding neighborhoods.
The majority of innocents killed by drive-by's and street gun fighst tends to be by black people.
They never stop with the slavery speech and claim America owes them what the slaves were promised in the civil war days and the reason Southerners hate the Northerners is because they're the ones that freed the blacks from slavery (well, quakers) but you get what i'm saying.
Plus they all say Texas didn't have slaves since the government were having a hard time populating Texas and the parts that were populated were farmers or ranchers.

Now yeah, ya'll will be pissed of at this, but i'm merely stating what i found out and was told the other day.
You know, i have no issues with any 'race', i just take it up with the individual no matter what color or creed! I stay at home with my girls and raise them as best i can so to be honest, i really couldn't care much less what goes on outside!

Answer 3

If you ask me, race relations have historically been more intimate in the south, in comparison to the north. The industrialized north was substantially more rigid but where there was cordiality there was social/racial progress.

In the south blacks served so many domestic functions they had no choice but to be intimate. Black women were the typical mid-wives, wet-nurses and mammies that shaped all the little white girls manners and morals. Black men were the typical personal attendants for everyday life. They were also the storytellers and the Blues singers white youth flocked to. The mulatto/octaroon oligarchy that formed in late antebellum S. Carolina is striking, especially when you compare with Brazil and Haiti. Amongst free blacks and free whites in close proximity, throughout the south, a general peace can be attested to. During the Civil War is when that general peace peaked, but we can't romanticize the servant/mistress and master relationship.

After the Civil War, when the KKK began forming, the fiery response of losing the war, on top of being so intimately related to newly freed blacks, showed itself in the ritualistic lynch-mob practices of the Reconstruction Period. Such emotions and anger hadn't really developed in the north. They were more indifferent than anything. Race relations in the north were extremely polarizing, before Jim Crow even, but a high frequency of immigrants from Europe diluted this. Abolitionists were some of the most racist people in U.S. history and it wasn't because they were so familiar with blacks.

Presently, the south is a better place for blacks only because that's where they are most numerous. Overall I would say the north is a better place to be only because it's more diverse, industrialized and ripe for major social changes. You can't count on the south to lead the way on social issues.

I was watching one of those Jena 6 kids do an interview the other day and he confirmed that there's a "coloured" side of town and a "white" side of town; and the fact that a school fight warrants 16 year olds being tried as adults and buried under the jail for 20+ years isn't signs of progress in the south.

Answer 4

for the most part yes. they were the last to let blacks do a lot of things like go to school w/ whites and stuff. but the north is no angel either. they didnt overtly help blacks and there is some animosity between some of the ethnicities there.

Answer 5

I'm tempted to say yes, but from may actual experience all I can say is Midwestern and Southern metro areas have the same level of racism but someone is more likely to say the n-word in the South.

The racism of smaller Southern towns seems to vary wildly to me, as well as the level of racism from generation-to-generation and even individual-to-individual. In the South, you don't know who is totally cool with all ethnicities and who'll say "to hell with all n***s and foreigners"... while in the North and West, most people in a certain area have similar points of view.

People are also a little bit friendlier in general in the South, making the issue even more complicated on an interpersonal level (You go around thinking everybody's so cool until WHAM... you hear somebody openly talkin about hating certain races).

Answer 6

In terms of the civil war and white people and black people I would have to say that generally southerners are more racist then northerners. But in current situations i think that they are equally as racist especially since their are more races and cultures.

Answer 7

the South has always known to be more racist than the north. most civil rights killings and movements took place in the south.

yes the south is.