>Well I was raised in suburban Washington D.C. and did not go to school with a African American until the 7th grade when ONE student was sent to Williamsburg Jr. High School. So segregation WAS NOT just a southern thing.

Forced segregation? Whites only restaurants and drinking fountains? If that happened in the north, I haven't heard of it. I think we all have seen pictures of it in the south.

>MLK said that the worst hatred he ever saw in any march was in Chicago.

Well, I don't know what to make of that. Maybe it was one particular march with a handful of angry whites, or maybe it really was the worst march. But I really don't know how southerners can make the argument that racism was worse in the north. And I have heard that from southerners for a long time.

>Sterotypes of southern people still abound to this day and probably always will. Just as sterotypes of Northern people abound in the south. < s >

Yep.

>Northern is any place north of Atlanta. < vbg >

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>Anyway.... to MAIN reason for my response is that the Ga House today passed a bill to modify the state flag. The flag will be blue with the state seal in the middle. Under that will be small replicas of all the flags that have flown over the state. So the current Ga flag will be there. A real compromise! So you see we all are not the backward red-neck racists that we are steortyped to be.

I really don't think the rest of the country looks on every white male in Georgia as racist. But I still think racism is bigger in the deep south, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi in particular. I have heard the argument that it is worse in the north, but I just don't buy it.