[stainlessbanner]

Mississippy (and South) bashing is getting old. The facts speak for themselves, Chicago.

[bayourod]

"It was one thing, King argued, to defeat the overt racism of snarling southerners like Bull Connor; it was another thing to confront the deeper, more covert institutional racism that lived beneath the less openly bigoted, smiling face of northern and urban liberalism."

MLK said that?
"bigoted, smiling face of northern and urban liberalism." Reminds me of Hillary. Is she from Chicago?

[bourbon]

I've lived in Chicago and MS. There is racism in both places, no doubt. And, it is hard to say which locale is more or less "racist."

The main difference between Chicago and MS that I saw was that there was less black militancy and white fear in MS, despite MS's proportionally larger black population and its tarnished past. Blacks and whites seemed to get along better in MS because they were more comfortable living together.

I like to think that Southern manners and an aversion to extreme liberal poltics among (black and white) Southerners probably also has something to do with this.