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[carolinayellowdog]

11. Why are so many northerners?

As a white Virginian, more than half of whose immediate family members are black, I'd ask you to take a look at this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/28/the-most-racist-places-in-america-according-to-google/

which indicates, as I long suspected based on personal observation, that the regions north, south, and west of us are far more inclined to use the n-word than we are here in VA. MAYBE that just means we're more polite. But I've LIVED albeit briefly in Michigan, Ohio, Alabama, and Louisiana, and my observations support the finding that overt racism is far more socially acceptable in the Rust Belt and the Deep South than here in the border states.

If any of my biracial nieces were to ask my advice about where might be safe or unsafe places to relocate, my advice would have nothing to do with north vs. south and everything to do with STAY AWAY FROM THE RUST BELT AND THE DEEP SOUTH. Fortunately they are safe in Maryland and Montana where simplistic hatemongering re north vs. south is FUCKING irrelevant.