I'm from the deep deep deep south originally. I know its faults inside and out, and they are many. But there are many good things about where I'm from, and many good people live in the south.
There are good and bad people everywhere.
We have been shown the lives of the north on TV and in movies ad nauseum. Everyone knows about the north. A lot of the people who make movies and TV are from the north, after all. But the north doesn't seem to understand the south very well.
Before the yanks start condemning the south for the KKK and all the other things the south is supposedly saddled with, they should consider that the KKK headquarters in the country was INDIANA, which to us southerners is yankee territory. There are bad people everywhere.
(BTW, there's an excellent made for TV movie about the downfall of the KKK. It was about the leader headquartered in Indiana. He and others took some good girl on a train and repeatedly raped her. This was back in the day when rape ruined a girl's life. The black porter saw what was going on, but of course could do nothing. She ended up drinking some poison. The KKK guys took her in their car, while she was puking and suffering, and ended up dropping her off somewhere. She ended up back home somehow and suffered a days-long agonizing death as the poison ate her insides. During that time she was dying, she told the full story to someone, who wrote it all down. The KKK chief was brought to trial, and when all the facts came out - even the black porter testified - about the poor girl's torture and agonizing death, he was found guilty, and the KKK fell into ruin because they were of course fake. They were just another group of hatemongering thugs. The kicker was that the KKK chief has a suitcase full of papers proving the corruption of many famous leaders in the state...he'd been blackmailing them for years. He released all that, and many lives were rightfully ruined. Good movie.)
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