[ACC28340]

Truth is, the South has long been one of the most dangerous, if not THE most dangerous, parts of the country for anyone who isn’t white. My experience living in the South might be considered typical. I’ve been in the Midwest, the Northeast, California and the Rockies, but nowhere did I have more drunken, brain-dead idiots threaten me as much as in the South. I avoided certain kinds of bars and nightclubs down there. Even a hint of country music or a place without anyone else non-white was enough to make me get up and leave. And I knew damned well what I was doing since I grew up in a small Texas town. If white Southerners want to change their image, they better change the reality of life down here, plain and simple. They have no one to blame but themselves for this image. No one made country singers sing ‘working like a ni**er all day long’ or about how proud they are to be rednecks. No one makes them worship a symbol of hatred of blacks and defense of slavery, the Confederate flag, and then bizarrely turn around and claim it stands for Southern pride. Until your average white Southerner is more like Jimmy Carter and less like Zell Miller, I’ll be thankful I live in a part of what’s technically the South that’s nothing like the rest of it.

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Name : ACC28340, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, Age : 39, City : San Antonio, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : Teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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