The most racially-diverse state I know of is Hawaii. One day when I was stationed at Pearl Harbor, a Black sailor I worked with came in, so very angry. He'd had to walk home from work - every time he tried to get a taxi (and there were *lots* of taxis there), they'd slow down...and as soon as they saw he was Black, they'd drive away.

My point is, it wasn't just the Deep South - segregation and Jim Crow laws applied nationwide and in the military. Along the same lines, when did you first hear of the Tulsa massacre? I think it's safe to say that most Americans - regardless of where they grew up - hadn't heard of it before a few years ago because it simply wasn't taught - it was hidden. Those who approve our history books aren't eager to let our kids know what we Americans did to our own. I grew up in Mississippi, and we were taught the Civil War was all about states' rights - it wasn't until after the advent of the internet that any of us saw the Articles of Secession that made it plain that it really was all about slavery. There is much of our history that we were never taught.

For instance, I can go all day down a list of what we've done against Asians. You've heard of the Japanese Internment, but what about the Chinese Exclusion Acts? What about how Asians were targeted nationwide following Trump's false accusations of "the China virus"?

And then there's what we've done and continue to do against Native Americans - read up sometime on how far some on reservations have to travel to vote, and how others still don't have running water.

Please understand that racism doesn't require malice - most white racists feel no malice at all towards other races. But all racism requires is an untoward assumption about other races or ethnicities, and those untoward assumptions unerringly lead to voting for politicians and policies that *are* racist in effect. Most white Republicans today honestly don't think they're racist, but (thanks to the daily BS fed to them from right-wing media) they do hold assumptions about other races, and so they vote for racist candidates and policies.

And that is how racism continues to be institutionalized, woven into the very fabric of our society.