<p>I don’t even believe that the South is more racist by population density. I remember once one of my teachers in elementary school asked, “The rest of the country thinks we’re racists. What do you think about that?”
One of my classmates said, “We know the history of our state, so I think we’re more aware of what problems racism causes.” Of course, this was the response of an unrefined 4th grader, so the language was a bit different.
There is no way to measure racism in a general population. As lethargytm points out, everyone is racist (in their own way). There are, however, notable racism-related movements that oftentimes are interrelated to things like where the Nazi party, KKK, and skinheads are located that in turn are related to where economies relied on handpicked cotton, where there are a lot of Asian or Hispanic immigrants, where there is “natural” segregation, and where there are housing issues often due to job migration.</p>
<p>Easy, I got the joke, but the word “colored” is outdated.</p>