I don't understand the South.

[Zorra]

58. There's lots of icky racists in the north, too. But there's more of them per capita in the south.

Racism is socially acceptable in many areas of the south.

In too many places in the south, racism is enculturated. It is the unspoken, but generally understood, norm among the majority of conservatives in the south.

Ignorant conservatives everywhere fear and hate most everything that is different from them, and they don't think logically. The racist traditions of southern conservatives may even partly stem from misdirected anger at African Americans because the south lost the civil war.

Southern whites became a subjugated, impoverished, and brutalized people after the Civil War. The lingering irrational racism of the southern conservative may partly stem from the years immediately following the civil war, when they found themselves made forcibly made equal to their former slaves by the northerners who defeated them.

I'm sure there are several other reasons why ignorant southern conservatives in the south enculturated racism and carried on the tradition of racism to the present day.

And, try as we may, we can't fix teh stupid of the dysfunctional. irrational, non-empathic conservative consciousness.