edited based on scorpio's comment.
many of the counties in the South are rural black, but some also not. For example DeKalb (part of City of Atlanta) isn't. Population appx 700k. for what it is worth, Maryland would have been included in my "South" comment. i think the point remains the same though -- much of the country, especially west of the Mississippi river, is super-majority white. by default there will be different perceptions of race, and necessarily more interactions with people of other races.
scorpio, if i can find the map i have at home, i'll try to figure out how to post. maybe there is a slightly different definition of "black" to ferret out the dozen or so counties in the entire country that aren't in the south with greater than a 25% black population. certainly based on the information you posted you'll agree there are none greater than 50% anywhere in the country other than the south. for the sake of argument, i'll acknowledge that there may be a handful of counties with a black population greater than 25%, but my point is that it matters. people in Oregon who have always lived in Oregon don't have any standing to argue race relations based on experience.
many of the counties in the South are rural black, but some also not. For example DeKalb (part of City of Atlanta) isn't. Population appx 700k. for what it is worth, Maryland would have been included in my "South" comment. i think the point remains the same though -- much of the country, especially west of the Mississippi river, is super-majority white. by default there will be different perceptions of race, and necessarily more interactions with people of other races.
scorpio, if i can find the map i have at home, i'll try to figure out how to post. maybe there is a slightly different definition of "black" to ferret out the dozen or so counties in the entire country that aren't in the south with greater than a 25% black population. certainly based on the information you posted you'll agree there are none greater than 50% anywhere in the country other than the south. for the sake of argument, i'll acknowledge that there may be a handful of counties with a black population greater than 25%, but my point is that it matters. people in Oregon who have always lived in Oregon don't have any standing to argue race relations based on experience.