Now with that said I want to go on record that I do not view everybody in Boston or up north as racist. I say that to avoid what I have experienced being from the south, and esp MS, where many yankee's assume you are a member of the KKK just because of where you are from. I have observed that in many if not most northern cities there is a higher percentage of racists than in the south. Listen to the stories of black southerners that moved up north in the 'great migration' and many will tell you that they faced much greater racisim in industrial northern urban areas than in the rural south. There is currently a new great migration where those folks are moving back home in droves.