Most racist SEC state?

Illinois

Chicago be killing brothers by the train cars.

Florida

SEC? I'd probably go with Alabama. Louisiana isn't really that bad because races have to live side by side.

Overall? Pennsylvania, for sure. Get out of the cities and those people put all southerners to shame.

Honorable mention: West Virginia.

Really? I'd submit that Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama are 3 of the least racists states there are. Blacks and whites in these states tend to have lived their whole lives there and have been forced to deal with racism head on for 50+ years in a way that just about every other area of the country (even other areas of the Southeast) haven't had to. Demographically, blacks and whites in these 3 states HAVE to get along to be able to have successful businesses, etc. Those states don't have people moving in at the rates other Southern states do therefore the political and social order is less volatile than say in Georgia and the Carolinas. The only exception to this in the 3 state area (LA, MS, and AL) is a few pockets in the Appalachia area of North Central and Northeast Alabama where the AA is much smaller and the white population is more insular and suspicious of "others". Talking about your Cullman, Gadsden, and Sand Mountain type areas. The rest of Alabama is no different than Louisiana and Mississippi when it comes to the understanding between blacks and whites.

One thing I will say is that many places outside of the Southeast or major cities in other parts of the country don't really have the perspective to lecture the Deep South on racism. The only major U.S. city outside of the Deep South that mirrors the demographics of many Deep South cities is Detroit and it is a racial hell hole and nightmare. When you see states like Vermont who has a 1% AA population flying a BLM flag alongside the U.S. flag and the Vermont state flag you see just how little perspective some of these lily white areas of the country have when it comes to race relations.

Are you talking redneck racist?

or BLM racist?

While you definitely have hardcore racist everywhere, I think the south probably has the least per capita outside out the plains and Utah, Colorado (hippie mountain states)..... the people living in the south have grown up and lived with each other as neighbors, classmates, teammates, etc. The most racist places I've been to were the northeast (Philly, NYC, Boston), Detroit, and LA.

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If you extend this nationally I think either WV or Idaho takes the cake as the most racist state.

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Because they are two of the whitest?

If you read the OTL it is definitely Louisiana.

well, judging by people on tRant, it would have to be Loseiana... but having dated a State girl my freshman year in college, I couldn't believe the shite people would say when we were together in Starkville.

We left the waffle house one night and a couple ol baws were out sitting on a truck. when they saw us holding hands and walking to the car one of them said "well that ain't right..." so i walked up to them and asked them "what ain't right." they didn't have shite to say, but the looks we got were nuts, and this was in 2001.