<p>@MM- </p>
<p>It was two cities in South Carolina, one city in Alabama, and one city in Mississippi. We went on a road trip in the south.</p>
<p>I don’t spend that much time in the South, but it was mostly all white and there were pretty derogatory comments about some interracial couples that came in to a few of the places that we were staying (I can lip-read and I was “listening” to the workers). Two of the other places were saying derogatory things about African Americans in regards to a news story that was showing on the TV. The place in Alabama was the worst. My mum and I were speaking Spanish to one another, because we do that to practice sometimes- or if we’re talking about my father. I could hear the older waiter complaining that America was going to hell because them damn Mexicans are taking over America. That’s all I was saying. I haven’t seen that here in the north.</p>
<p>I may have had bad experiences. It’s true. All I was saying was that it is only in the south that I had seen blatant racism like that between whites and blacks or whites and Mexicans. </p>
<p>Around here, there was a strong anti-Muslim sentiment because of Dearborn, MI which has the highest percentage of Muslims in America. If the OP had been talking about racism towards Middle Easterners, then I would have used Dearborn as an example of where racism still exists. </p>
<p>/my discussion on this</p>