Some racist who has a daughter who is either a moron or a liar:
[quoteThis thread has now vaulted to the level of being the second dumbest thread ever, with all the racist stuff, second only to the posts about difference in income level between the states.
But I am going to weigh in here.
I have lived in a lot of states, and visited most of the rest of them. I now live in SC.
As I was growing up back in the 1970's, while the south was still fighting over whether to treat African-Americans as human beings or not, in my Vienna, WV neighborhod, there were several inter-racial marriages and our next door neighbors (who were white) adopted a black child, and NOBODY GAVE ANY OF THIS SECOND THOUGHT! This was in the early 1970's.
My daughter, who is of mixed race, is now 24 years old and was raised here in SC, lived in New York City for two years. She is very familiar with West Virginia and South Carolina because she has family in both places. She says that the MOST racist place she has EVER seen is New York. Racism there isn't between black and white only. It's between Jewish, Chinese, Black, White, Hispanic, you name it. Jewish only hire Jewish people, Chinese only hire Chinese, etc, etc, and so forth. New York isn't a melting pot. It's a bunch of lumps of people that won't blend floating around in a pot.
There is racism everywhere and anyone who says it doesn't exist where they are is stupid. Yes, it's in NY, in SC, in WV, it's everywhere.
However, in my experience, and my daughter's experience, West Virginia is one of the least racist places.
In fact, the very reason West Virginia even exists is because of the Civil War and the issues surrounding that war.
Halfway through the Civil War, a portion of the state of Virginia decided to break away from the Conderacy and join the Union effort. Thus, Abraham Lincoln declared WV a separate state from Virginia in 1864. But, isn't it ironic that uninformed people always seem to claim that West Virginia is a racist state, but you don't hear those same people talking about Virginia, the portion of the state that stayed with the Conderacy! Virginia, NOT West Virginia, continued to fight FOR slavery. West Virginia fought with the North, against the Conferacy, AGAINST slavery and the issues surrounding that war.
Get your facts straight KANS-bad person][/quote]
