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In reply to the discussion: Hey, you Texas-haters, Florida-haters, southern-haters [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I also lived in Georgia and Maryland but no Louisiana or Arkansas. Loved every visit to LA I've made though.
Born in Florida and live here now but all those other places in between. I saw a huge amount of racism when i lived in Texas during most of my school age years. But by then my mom and step-asshole were raising my brothers and I in an independent, fundamentalist baptist church and I wasn't really allowed to hang out with people not in that group. And they were some racist motherfuckers. It still boggles my mind that all his church people can't see what a piece of shit my step-asshole is. He wrote the book on public vs private face.
There's quite a bit of it here too. I regularly see a pick-up truck driving around with KKK stickers all over it. I once delivered pizza to a house one neighborhood over from my mine and when they opened up the door I could see a giant Nazi swastika flag hanging in the living room. There's confederate flags everywhere.
"The south" certainly does have a lot of work to do. It doesn't help when some folks advocate cutting off Florida or pushing for Texas to secede. (I've seen that and more here on DU) We aren't a lost cause.