Guys, guys, please.
First of all, let's get a few things clear.
1) in the south or in the north, you wouldn't have to ask that many people before you found someone that said exactly what this guys said. Racism is an American Problem.
2) This is not a hate issue. Ok, so a few rednecks and militant blacks want to make it one, but most decent (and otherwise racist) people, black and white, that say they are confused, are just that, confused. Their tried and true methods, that have been honed for generations are not gonna die because a few liberals tell them it should. Most of them are ignorant but not uneducated, wise but unworldly, snug in their environment and unwilling to change it.
3) True change is gonna take his generation and the next dying off.
4) this is NOT an exclusive southern issue, but there is more in the south because southerners are more traditional by nature.
5) I consider myself to be the new south. I am part of the group that is gonna philosophically take over this country, which started in the early 60's and is continuing unimpeded to this day.
6) Back in the day, If Obama would have been white, people would have been bitching becasue he was a Chicago Liberal.