@cicerone imposter,
Quote:Well put;
"much evil that still exist in the south's racial DNA."
Indeed, CI, racism is part-and-parcel of the American culture; it's more pronounced in the south; however, be that as it may, sectarianism is an intrinsic component of the human psyche.....we instinctively tend toward skepticism regarding those who're different from us. Even after getting to know the "other", we don't completely let our guard down and there is always lurking just beneath the surface the one from a different ethnicity. By interacting in the corporate world, living in the same neighborhood, the average workplace, school, University, socializing at various group events we get to know the "other."
Special mention should be made regarding racism and African Americans who are visible by their darker color from all the rest. Once slaves in America, they have to work especially hard to distinguish themselves, more so than other ethnic groups because within the American culture blacks will always be thought of as second class citizens even when (in some cases) they are richer and more educated.
The average African American carries the European gene after so many centuries of miscegnation, we have a definite cross breed called Mulattoes. Some blacks were so white that they passed for Caucasian, marrying into the white ethnicity group, carrying the black gene with them. Southern Whites, at least some of them, carries the black DNA. It is almost impossible for two dominant ethnic groups to live in the same country without intermingling on some level.
