fun muffin if you truly want to understand why there is more to it than math, simply look up JC Nichols and what he did with HOA Zoning. Heavily educate yourself on systemic racism, and you will begin to learn why there may be higher crime rates in poor, heavily black populated areas. Research why "ghetto's" exist. Ask yourself why black people get pulled over more than white people just because they look suspicious.
Rural white America is ignorant on the history of black suppression in this country. They don't learn because they don't care...and because it does not affect them. The majority of small Kansas towns (for example) do not have a single black person in them. So why would there be any empathy towards them?
Quick Story:
My wife had a sad story about her Freshman year at Drake University. Her sorority roommate was from very rural northern Iowa. One day they pulled up to a gas station the first semester of college and her roommate hit the floor of the car. My wife at the time could not understand why. Well...it was because she saw a black man in public and immediately tagged him as a criminal. She didn't grow up with black people in a 100 mile radius. The only image she had was violence that was portrayed on the news and in movies. This white blonde girl ducked in the car because she was scared of a person due to the color of his skin and the fact she thought he was going to rob the gas station.
This still heavily exists today. I could put many members of my rural Kansas family in a room with a bunch of black people and they would react in the most weird and uncomfortable way you could imagine. I'm also confident a couple of my cousins would keep their hand on their knife just expecting to get robbed.
It's rough ridin' ridiculous and it needs to change.
