On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:00:38 PM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
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On 7/9/13 1:37 PM, wrote:

On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:15:25 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



On 7/8/13 10:39 PM, wrote:

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:32:54 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



I see no reason to support backwards, racist, anti-government.

anti-woman, anti voters' rights states like South Carolina or Texas with

tourism business.



Humm... I don't seem to remember Maryland ever electing a female

governor or a person of any ethnic minority for that office.

They were all white guys and more than a few were corrupt.





You don't have to be a woman politician to not be anti-woman, or a black

politician to not be anti-black. Further, I don't expect all the players

in our political system to be pure as the driven snow in corruption.

Maryland is not particularly backwards, racist, anti-government,

anti-woman, or anti voters' rights.



I am not convinced the people of South Carolina are any more racist

than the people in Southern Md, particularly the ones who were part of

the white flight from DC. The only kkk rally I ever saw was in

Southern PG county.



The most racist people I have ever seen as a group, are northern, big

city, cops.





I live in Southern Maryland, and have for a decade. A good number of the

most illustrious people here are the descendents of 18th and 19th

Century blacks, mostly farmers, and some of them are still farmers.

There are any number of roads here named after black families. There are

black kids on our street, and black kids in the schools, and black kids

working in the stores after school. Two of my doctors are local blacks.

I think about 15% of the local population is black and about 4% is Latino.



I'm not claiming there is no racism here. I am sure we have some white

racist pigs amongst us. They're everywhere. But at least the racism here

isn't institutional and on-going, as it is in South Carolina. No one in

Calvert County would dare to **** around with easy voter registration

and short-line voting.



I haven't had much to do with "northern, big city, cops."



There's still black farmers in South Carolina, and that's a pretty

stupid point to make! There are a number of roads in South Carolina

named after black families, There are black kids on a lot of streets in

South Carolina, and in the schools. And black kids working in the stores

after school. So what IS your point?

A black friend who grew up in a small town here in SC, was in the Air Force, and travels extensively for work tells me that he runs into racism far more in other parts of our country than he does here in SC. One of the reasons seems to be that a larger percentage of our population is black, and we have learned to get along better than other places with few blacks, or highly segregated neighborhoods.

These folks that think southern states are still highly racist are living in the past. We have moved on more than many northern states.