I think this statement is probably much less true in the South. (I don’t consider FL to be part of the “South” though).
"In it’s entire history, the universities’s sororities had only previously admitted a single black member. "
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/02/25/sorority-segregation-is-a-serious-issue
http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2013/09/the-final-barrier-50-years-later-segregation-still-exists