People who live in the southern parts of the United States, is it really as racist as pop culture makes it seem?

It is a situation that arose from a racist and evil society, but the people growing up now I would counter are not racist. For decades, the move was to segregate areas, and school districts drew lines around that, resulting in high-minority schools even once segregation became illegal. It’s stayed that way because those areas don’t get much economic attention, ie they are stuck with the worst stores, worst housing, etc, and because it’s hard to move out of those situations if you don’t have the resources you need (ie, you were never able to finish high school because you needed to work to support your family, you are stuck in a dead-end job because you don’t have a college degree and college is expensive, etc). I agree that it is absolutely wrong, but it reflects a racist society of the last century. I counter that by saying that the majority of people, I don’t know, 40 and under are not racist. Of course you’ll have people that are racist, and blatantly and outright racist, but most are not that way. On another note, I have never heard schools referred to as “black” or “white”. I’ve heard some schools referred to as “title 1” (very economically depressed, given more resources from the state to try to help counter that and give the kids a leg up). I’ve heard areas and schools referred to as majority minority, simply because we now have a large amount of immigrants from other nations.

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