What this is all about is that the majority of Southern whites won't accept non whites as equals

[carolinayellowdog]

35. intermarriage, voting, and segregation data all undermine your thesis

First, interracial marriage stats flatly contradict your generalization. From the Pew Research study The Rise of Intermarriage:

Intermarriage in the United States tilts West. About one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14% in the South, 13% in the Northeast and 11% in the Midwest. (end quote) This however combines various kinds of interracial marriage, and it turns out that for black/white intermarriage, the West is lowest, the South highest: 2.3% in the South, 1.6% each in the Midwest and Northeast, vs. only 1.1% in the West. These regional generalizations obscure specific state variations, most notably that #1 in black white intermarriage is Virginia; #2 North Carolina, the only two states over 3.0%.

Here is the percentage of the white vote received by Obama in 2012 as calculated on the dailykos, lowest to highest.

MS 0.1
LA 0.105
AL 0.133
GA 0.145
OK 0.148
UT 0.167
SC 0.197
AR 0.218
WY 0.23
TX 0.234
TN 0.243
AK 0.245
ID 0.277
KS 0.294
NC 0.308
NE 0.31
KY 0.311
AZ 0.314
WV 0.317
SD 0.34
VA 0.344
ND 0.347
MO 0.348
IN 0.361
FL 0.374
NV 0.378
MT 0.38
OH 0.418
NM 0.422
MD 0.426
PA 0.443
CO 0.445
MI 0.448
CA 0.451
DE 0.456
IL 0.458
NJ 0.462
MN 0.48
WI 0.48
WA 0.482
IA 0.492
OR 0.494
NH 0.503
CT 0.518
NY 0.519
HI 0.535
ME 0.548
MA 0.559
RI 0.589
VT 0.664

While it is certainly true that the lowest percentages are in the Deep South states, as a Virginian I see us near the national median, between North and South Dakota, higher than Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, Arisona along with several southern states. Florida is better yet on this measure.

On the subject of residential segregation, here are the racial dissimilarity index rankings, specifically black/white; I give the 20 most and 20 least segregated as of 2010. Dissimilarity is the percentage who would need to move to attain random distribution, if I understand correctly:

1. Gary, IN 87.9
2. Detroit, MI 86.7
3. Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI 84.4
4. New York, NY 84.3
5. Chicago, IL 83.6
6. Newark, NJ 83.4
7. Flint, MI 81.2
8. Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY 80.4
9. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH 79.7
10. Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI 79.1
11. Nassau-Suffolk, NY 79.0
12. Johnstown, PA 78.8
13. St. Louis, MO-IL 78.0
14. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 78.0
15. Birmingham, AL 77.4
16. Kankakee, IL 77.3
17. Gadsden, AL 77.1
18. Philadelphia, PA-NJ 76.9
19. Bergen-Passaic, NJ 76.8
20. Benton Harbor, MI 76.6
...
294. Clarksville-Hopkinsville, TN-KY 41.7
295. Anchorage, AK 41.4
296. El Paso, TX 41.1
297. Santa Rosa, CA 41.1
298. Cheyenne, WY 40.5
299. Modesto, CA 40.5
300. Billings, MT * 40.3
301. Albuquerque, NM 40.0
302. Lewiston-Auburn, ME 39.4
303. Fort Walton Beach, FL 39.1
304. Corvallis, OR * 39.0
305. Enid, OK 38.8
306. Medford-Ashland, OR 38.3
307. Yuba City, CA 38.1
308. Eugene-Springfield, OR 37.9
309. Fayetteville, NC 37.8
310. Boise City, ID 37.1
311. Redding, CA 37.1
312. Boulder-Longmont, CO 36.7
313. Lawton, OK 35.2
314. Missoula, MT 34.9
315. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 34.4
316. Lawrence, KS 33.6
317. Yolo, CA 31.8
318. Jacksonville, NC 31.7

Since Virginia doesn't make either the top or bottom 25, I ran just the state, which shows considerably disparity but general tending towards the middle:

1. Richmond city 68.3
2. Roanoke city 68.3
3. Portsmouth city 62.0
4. Norfolk city 57.5
5. Chesapeake 52.6
6. Charlottesville 52.4
7. Suffolk city 52.0
8. Lynchburg city 51.2
9. Newport News city 50.3
10. Hampton city 47.4
11. Danville city 46.2
12. Alexandria city 46.0
13. Petersburg city 42.6
14. Virginia Beach city 41.4
15. Leesburg town 38.0
16. Manassas city 29.2
17. Harrisonburg city 25.0
18. Blacksburg town 17.5

for the few who value information and analysis over polarizing, hatemongering false generalizations.