User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-1600847-20121209142434/@comment-4057437-20121214035215

"The southern utd states were, and still are, one of the most racist places in the Western world, and everybody knows this"  - No, everybody is TAUGHT this, that doesn't necessarily make it true. Remember who writes the history books.

We are NOT saying there aren't racists in the Old South. What we are saying is that they don't have a monopoly on it. Again, the largest KKK chapters were not in the Old South, rather, in the Midwest. The Jim Crow laws are long gone, but the racial polarization in places like Boston and Detroit is still with us.