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Meaning, I was more ignorant, not that they were better then. All the really shitty voices got way louder and actually did a lot of crazy shit. If you watched publicfreakout before the insurrection, you could see the shitty voices on the airplanes coming from the south to go to it. Then they did the Jan. 6th stuff in support of a president that does a lot of evil things to a lot of people. I knew there were some, I didn't know it was that bad.
There are a lot of people who I don't agree with, I don't agree with most people. But it is very tribalist and imo honestly ridiculous to believe half of any country is genuinely evil.
It's not half of America, it's about 34% and most of the south. I'm not a fan of racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters, so yeah I think that's kind of evil. If they didn't express that hate, I wouldn't care, but they do.
You're a mod here then? Interesting. You shouldn't use the mod tag when you're conversing.
You do realize most black people live in the South right?
Okay, I'll bite, what is the percentage? How many of them are in big cities because there's safety in numbers?
I'm not trying to "get you" or anything, but simply stating a fact, most black people in America live in the Southern part of the country.
"Regionally, the highest concentration of Black people in the U.S. in 2021 is in the South; more than half (56%) live there. Following the South, 17% live in each the Midwest and the Northeast and 10% live in the West.
When it comes to states of residence, Texas is home to the largest Black population, at about 4.0 million. Florida comes in a close second with 3.8 million, and Georgia comes in third, with 3.6 million."
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
If we do urban vs. rural, then the highest concentration of Black Americans would be in New York City, followed by Atlanta
So Texas has a 13.4% black population and the US in general has 13.6% according to the US census, that's not a a huge percentage and that's my point. Even assuming everything you're posting is true, saying they mostly live in the south is very misleading. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/TX/RHI225222