Like what? That the South used to be the home of Democrat racists? It was. It isn't any more. The racists are now all up here, sadly.
That wasn't where I was going, but since you stepped there, there were a shitload of Yankee racists, too.
I recall our schools had been integrated for seven years at the howling behest of sanctimonious Yankees who were still burning buses in Boston the year I graduated from High School so their kids wouldn't have to go to school with "those people".
Typical Northeastern Liberals, they wanted to make rules for everyone else to live by, but weren't so good at following their rules for everyone else. Well, that hasn't changed.
Funny thing, the Northeastern Media outlets were the ones who constantly pushed the idea of Southern=Prejudiced (among other stereotypes), and to be sure, there was some of that (every stereotype contains some small grain of truth), but the first year our schools were integrated, it was a black student, a guy I knew, had played with and worked with on the farm side by side, who refused to "learn with him", pointing at me. There were two sixth grade classes that year, and he went to the other. Both had black teachers. My sixth grade teacher is one I rank among my all time great teachers.
My parents were Republican, as were many of the folks I knew, even if Lincoln was still regarded as an invader.
