(January 21, 2015 at 3:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just imagine the feeling when you -are- "one of them" - but simultaneously...not a racist. Oh, the amount of jokes they have prepared for that situation. That little tidbit ought to give a moment of pause for the stereotype, but it doesn't. These fuckers have generational canned jokes for dealing with other rednecks who aren't racist - that means they've been dealing with that for awhile.......
(I think it's hilarious that you assume racism to be statistically more present on the basis of 4x4's or "redneckedness"....what do they call chocolate sprinkles in Boston...do you think? Isn't it possible that reporting and self acceptance is actually what you're experiencing? I've never found a bigot to be out of place based on his bigotry -anywhere- in the US.)
You're right - I should be saying that Southerners are more likely to be openly racist.
Years ago, when I was a kid hitchhiking around the country, I landed in New Orleans for a month or so. I ended up hanging & busking with a guitar-player who happened to be black. Talking about back-stories one day, he told me he had lived in California for a few years. I asked why he would leave CA for the in-your-face racist South (this would have been 1978-79).
His reply? "I know where I stand here. If someone doesn't like black folks, he'll call me a nigger to my face. In California, he'll smile to my face while thinking 'nigger,' and turn around and stab me in the back."
idk how accurate that assessment was, but it made me think.
