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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Southerner I would say most of the South is just fine for you (as in most of the South has significant or majority african-american population.) I've actually met more outwardly racist people in the DC metro.

BUT--the lily white mountainous parts of the South are the exception. Probably would be fine as a tourist, for a short period of time, although you may not have as good of an experience as a white person. Thinking the Nantahala areas of Georgia / NC and more rural areas of Appalachia in particular...when we went to visit, I thought...there is something missing. Not a single person of color. Anywhere.

Historically more of these areas had "sundown towns" see this article in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/20/AR2006022001590_2.html[/quote]

[b]I'm a minority, but not African American, and I grew up in the south.  I experienced just as much racism from AAs as from white people.[/b]  I wouldn't assume a place would be less racist just because it has non-white people.[/quote]
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