I think you bring up a good point (or maybe I just read into it). A lot of what I learned about the Civil Rights Movement was about how it mostly happened in the south. Nobody explicitly said “that’s where all the racists are,” but it felt like that. Now, I grew up in one of the most diverse schools in the country, so much so that we had a POTUS at one of our high school graduations because they felt we were such a great example. The problems of racism always felt so far away to me.