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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sent my pretty good stats kid down south for a free education so that we had money for graduate school/law school.

I think he got a good education.

I used to try to talk to him about racism and he thought I was over reacting… it’s not the 60’s anymore.

[b]Going down south you are literally gonna see it face-to-face kids using the n words on the daily. People making racist and insane remarks..[/b]

So I’d say the best education my kid got out of the south was that yes racism exist.[/quote]

This is totally 'tarted. No you aren't.[/quote]

I don’t really think you’re credible considering use the R word.

A group of racist, on campus day, one protesting women and black being in the school.

Kids dorms had confederate flags and they don’t thread on me. They’ve been multiple viral videos from their school showing students being racist and getting kick kicked out of school.
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Without getting into an argument with posters on the specifics of their experiences, the Deep South has a different culture.  It has changed a lot since I was a kid in Georgia decades ago, but it is still more socially acceptable there to make racist, comments there than other parts of the country.  You don't have to drive far out of Atlanta to run into it.  And the Confederate flag is a big part of the culture there.

The paradox is that people in the South are some of the warm, friendliest and kindest people I have ever met.  They aren't as reserved, and sometimes aloof, as people on the coasts.  It is more socially segregated by race than the West Coast, especially more than the newer developments in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the Inland Empire, but it is a matter of degree.  There's plenty segregation out here, too.

I live on the West Coast, and I knew a couple of families who had kids who were thinking about going to school in the South.  I never said, no, that's a bad idea.  I did say, it is different in ways that can't be experienced here, you might want to check it out before sending your kid there.  Go there and spend some time to find out if it works for you.[/quote]

But the University of Alabama is 60% out of state. It’s not the same as Alabama itself.  [/quote]

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