[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Your response is predictable for a white person in fly-over country. My wife is Chinese. We used to live in the Southeastern US. She experienced both overt and subtle prejudice the entire time we lived there. In the workplace, in restaurants. Our son did in school. Don't be so dismissive of aigel's point.

Southeastern midwest is not the same as the midwest. My brother in law is black and has lived most of his life in KS, he has never felt that racism here has been a factor in his life. With the high per-capita number of engineers here in particular, this town is a veritable melting pot. Downsize your broad brush a bit, everyone between the costs is not a bunch of ignorant racist hicks.