# Please describe racism in the southern US to me. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163 "2008-10-29T23:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163/101 "2014-09-07T22:30:57Z")
There are still segregated proms in the south today. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163/102 "2014-09-07T23:59:58Z")
> [@Quintas](#): > > I’m 37. I’ve lived in the South all my life. I’m curious where these people are going where they hear racial slurs and the feeling of being “in another world”. Are you hanging out in trailer parks? Work, at a professional-level job, in a major insurance company. School. Various gatherings/parties – some family (we all have THOSE family members, sigh), some that included friends of friends. Sometimes just out and about, like the mall. Sports events. It’s not just in the trailer park. I do think that if you grow up in the south and are white/middle-class, you don’t really notice until you move away for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163/103 "2014-09-08T05:54:28Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > In Indiana, blacks and whites stayed to themselves, and it was common for the racial cliques to openly fight in the schools. I don’t hear of that happening here, although black-on-black crime is much more prevalent where I live in NC. I’m an EMT, so it’s my job to clean up those messes. I live in Kansas City and in many high schools thats also very common. What has changed is now there are hispanics and Asians also who have either their own cliques or they join with one of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163/104 "2014-09-08T05:56:19Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There are still segregated proms in the south today. At many colleges, even on liberal campuses, that is common also with segregated places like the “Black Student Union” and having their own activities. Sometimes certain groups just want to hang with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163/105 "2014-09-08T06:04:18Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZtGz\_7WI0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZtGz_7WI0) > > My friends who found jobs in Atlanta do not have a high opinion of the black population of that city and felt the above link was Exhibit A. > > Of course, I’m sure they encounter black people every day who behave in a respectful manner (and by respectful, I don’t mean saying “Yessuh” or “Yessum” and walking with their heads down, I simply mean not acting anti-socially). It’s just that normal, adult behavior doesn’t attract their ire. I’m from Kansas City and many people complain about Kansas City is that most black people here do not have professional careers. Indeed here about half of all the jobs middle class black people have are with the school district or the post office. Now in comparison to Atlanta, Atlanta has way more black people with higher degrees, professional careers, and thus higher incomes and fewer working at these basic government jobs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-racism-in-the-southern-us-to-me/470163.md?page=5)