So let me ask -- which section of the U.S. has more integrated communities, more integrated churches, more integrated school systems, and the least violence between races over the past three decades.
Oh - that is the U.S. South.
Let's also take a look at government...
Of the 52 African-American members serving in the 115th Congress, 22 hail from the 12 Southern states. In a 2015 survey by the National Council of State Legislatures (pdf), although most state legislatures nationwide were less than 9 percent black, Southern state legislatures were 17 percent black.
Let's move on to economics...
According to U.S. census numbers, in 2016 the median income for whites was $61,858, but it was $39,490 for people who identified as black. The median incomes for Southern whites and Southern blacks in 2016 were $58,209 and $38,601, respectively. So nationally, blacks earned about 63 cents for every dollar that whites earned, but in the South, blacks earned about 66 cents per white dollar.
How about Home Ownership...
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Furthermore, according to BlackDemographics.com, of the top 10 states with high black homeownership, nine were in the South. In Forbes magazine’s 2015 list of the cities where blacks are doing the best economically, Southern cities made up 13 of the 15 on the list.
While we at it why don't we take a look at the States with the highest black/white differential in incarceration rates.
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https://www.theroot.com/is-the-south-more-racist-than-other-parts-of-the-us-1820893655
Because most Black people live in the south