Been there done that, the cultural stereo types are still there, along with the closed swimming pools and school system that has been balkanized with integration. I do like to troll our southern fried Trumper though. The south is not much different than the mid west or in the other places that experienced the post civil war southern dysphoria. The tradition of using the law as a bludgeon against minorities and electing public officials down to dog catcher, to better reflect the will of the locals and hide bigotry behind elected, not appointed offices and when you are elected, you can get away with a lot.
What do you think causes folks to vote for republicans or Trump? You can pretty much track racism by the red on the maps. That's not to say the people living in blue states are not racist, just not enough that it drives them nuts. A lot of the culture of this shit started in the south, along with evangelical Christianity, derived from southern Baptists. The voter suppression and antidemocratic tactics and laws aimed at blacks are now aimed at democrats in general. The parties are now polarized and have gone tribal around the fundamental historical American question, human rights for African Americans. It was and still is acceptable for a segment of the population to conduct civil war on these people and now they've expanded their hate list to encompass more people, well over half the country.
Bigotry was spread evenly between both parties in America, but that started to change in the sixties with the civil right act, as long as blacks were screwed, things could get done among white folks. However black Americans are the backbone of the democratic party and since Obama and especially since Trump, the lines have been drawn.
I don't mean to pick on America, it's no worse than Canada in many ways and the people no different, but there are reasons why America is coming apart at the seams these days and fascism might destroy American democracy, flawed as it is. I like to look at conditions and causes and get to the root of the problem in order to address it. Ending systemic racism in America would cause most of it's problems to disappear and it could govern itself and make some progress as a society. America has minority rule and from a pragmatic perspective, that is the main problem, the house can be fixed along with gerrymandering and at least the filibuster can be eliminated from the senate, also almost a critical mass of states have signed on that the winner of the popular vote in the country, wins their state. Dark money can be gotten rid of too, assholes on the SCOTUS impeached and guns regulated out of existence without changing the constitution.
