[UGAalum94]

I agree that there is/was racial discrimination everywhere and that the issue of race and slavery is often oversimplified in people's understanding of the Civil War which often boils down to North=good; South=bad, when it could more accurately thought of as North=bad; South=worse.

But ultimately, the Jim Crow laws in the South and people's attitude about integration in the South, make the issue, I think, uniquely more intense for the South.

Open, legal, and actively practiced discrimination on the basis of race is a whole lot more likely to have happened in the south more recently than in most other places.

However, other areas have their own issues: I think it was probably easier, until recently, as far as discrimination goes to be Hispanic in Georgia than in Texas, New Mexico or California for example.