This isn't true! I mean come on! Maybe back in the 60s...

[EweSheep]

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You go girl, prove them wrong!

I think Amish, we know so little about them but there are so many movies out about them in the worst light. Sure they have their own problems and they are not afraid to "ban" their offsprings if they don't like their way of life when they go thru the "rites" (gungspringa? sp) or they simply dont like the religion and wants to see whats the world has to offer them. Too many murder movies about them....ugh! The best one is the one that Tim Allen made...it was hilarious! We do have Amish out in Arthur, Arcola and Tuscola areas and they are wonderful people. Oh, the food!

 

[conny63malies]

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A few years back I went to Harrisburg PA to visit my friend. We went to a shopping center. I kept having a feeling there was something off, something different. I just couldn't put my finger on it. When a black lady walked past me, I suddenly realized she was the only African American person I had seen since I got there. I commented to my friend, who said that this was the "white" area. I was stunned. Where I come from everybody is welcome at our shopping centers.

As for private schools, you cannot discriminate on race, period. If a non-white parent wants to enroll her child, she may not be prohibited from doing so, federal funding or not. Just like a landlord may not refuse to rent to a person due to his race.

Its the same thing at the Corbin Ky Walmart.THere is ONE black guy working there. People arent racist,they are just surprised to see a black person because there are no black people living in the area.

 

[teach1rusl]

The school system I work for (largest school system in Kentucky) has been through various legal battles through the years in their attempts to integrate their schools and maintain a varied racial mix. Back in the 70s, white flight began in this area with the introduction of busing; Many white families ran for the surrounding (mostly white) counties.
The school system has fought hard to maintain what they see as a racial balance, assigning students based on schools maintaining between 15-50% black student populations. But several years ago parents/students (black parents/students in this case) sued because their children weren't admitted to a local magnet school due to that school already being at the 50% black capacity. The courts ruled at that time that the school system couldn't assign based on race, so they skirted the ruling by supposedly using economic factors for assigments...which has kept schools fairly mixed racially/culturally. There are a few schools that are probably 90% white, and there are a few schools that are probably 90% black/other. but the majority are more like 60/40 or 70/30 mixes. Some students do have LONG bus rides/times to create this "balance," and parents don't like it. In more recent years, more legal battles have erupted, with (mostly white) parents wanting to go back to "neighborhood" schools. If the system does go back to neighborhood schools, then in some areas, the schools will appear to be segregated, simply because of the make up of the neighborhoods in this area. But because they are publicly funded, they won't truly be segregated.

 

[KristyHall]

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I teasingly call my friends from up north Yankees. My sister was born in Detroit and I call her a yankee all the time. Granted it isn't the same as the point you were making, but I find the whole " yankee" thing some people have for northerners silly so I joke about it.

 

[pdbantam]

There are people haters EVERYWHERE. Just dooooooooooon't target the south as the only region. It just isn't true. " Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" ... it's still the right thing to do. Y'all have a great day now, ya hear!!!

 

[Wifezilla]

The creepiest place I ever visited (and I have been all around the country) was West Virginia. I was helping my dad move and we stopped at a gas station late one night, and though everyone at the station when I pulled in appeared to be white, it was very apparent who the locals were and they had obvious hostility to outsiders. I have never experienced anything like that IN MY LIFE! I am a big giant amazon and my dad is a muscular dude, but we looked at each other and practically ran out of that gas station. We drove as fast as we thought we could to get away from that place and never looked back. :: shudder::

 

[teach1rusl]

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LOL!! I was born and bred a WV hillbilly

. I don't live there now. But in all fairness, you can find pockets of THAT in just about every state. You did have me busting a gut laughing though, because I could picture the scenario. Some places there can be very clannish (not referring to KKKish).

 

[the Pollo Loco]

i grew up in SoCal , the school i attended was very racially integrated, you had whites, mexicans, vietnamese, blacks, you name it. We all seemed to be somewhat tolerant of each other... however when i joined the military i was confronted with so much hatred and bigotry i couldn't believe it. Whites who couldn't stand anyone who wasn't white, blacks who were just as bad. the whites and blacks that i went to school with were different. The military was a real eye opener for me... yet i continue to treat people not by their color but by their character.

 

[Royd]

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I didn't say he was a racist. He is presenting false information, and painting a region from Texas to Florida to Virginia with a broad brush. Basically, because the rest of the world doesn't fit into his mould of what's right, we are a bunch of barefoot, bib overall wearing, with one strap loose, tobacco chewing, missing three front teeth, sitting in a rocking chair, on the front porch with a shotgun, hating anyone or anything that isn't just like us.

That is known as bigotry and prejudice....Sort of like me saying that teachers are a bunch of close minded liberals, who are trying to put false impressions in your head, because they know that you are young and malleable.

I didn't see where he said that at all. The op said that he told them that there were schools in the south that are still like that. Well, being in the south now, I can totally agree with him. Is it ALL of the south? No. But there are definitely large sections of it that are still very openly racist. And I mean openly in that it is perfectly acceptable to use racial slurs in open public conversation and talk about killing blacks who "don't know their place." AND for others in the vicinity who overhear to openly applaud those sentiments.

Where people believe that it is an order from God to stamp out inter-racial relationships and that the Bible is against even associating with different races. That there are diseases that white people can catch if they use the same rest room as a "colored" person. We had a Black delivery driver ask if he could use our rest room at work. As soon as he left, my office manager put on gloves and went in and completely bleached the entire room. She closed down the men's room for several hours so she could clean and disinfect, first with bleach then 2 more times with really concentrated Pine Sol. She didn't want anyone to "catch anything". And we ALWAYS have different men in and out of our workplace. Delivery drivers, people touring the factory, etc etc and NEVER has she felt the need to disinfect after any of them.

Are there people like that in the North? I'm sure those people exist. But entire cities and counties where such behavior is acceptable? Not really. Maybe things said when you know that you are with people with similar views. But here, it is expected that EVERYONE has those views.

Where is here?

 

[teach1rusl]

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Wow, experiences can be so different, can't they. Back when I served (late 80s/early 90s) I had the opposite experience. We had white, black, and asian (not to lump all asians, but can't recall the main ethnicity), and everyone seemed to get along well. But most folks I worked with/hung out with were in electronics/electrical, so I wonder if that played a role?? Or maybe certain branches saw more segregation than others???