Pennsylvania

Look, I am a multi-generational Philadelphian AND Pennsylvanian, with family here at least back to the 1830s and earlier. My father fought in WW2 in a fucking segregated army, and his father in WW1 in a similar segregated army, and my mother, who had a degree in history/political science and secondary education, was not permitted to teach in a fucking Philadelphia High School because of her race (this was before "Brown vs Board of Education" ). Her best friends (godmothers for me and my sisters) experienced similar - 2 of them being math majors and forced to teach elementary school in the Philadelphia Public School system.

My grandfather applied to University of Penn Medical School in the 1920s and was told that they "were sorry but they already had their 2 niggers but he was welcome to apply to their Dental school" (which he did and graduated from there in 1924 the year my father was born).

My parents couldn't move to the fucking suburbs because of "race".

I have great-grandparents who had to move "south" to even "teach" at all. Period.

So trust me I know. I am a product of "northern racism".

The problem in this case is that you had racist and craven groups like "The United Daughters of the Confederacy", who made it their goal to spread their bullshit far and wide, erecting statues of traitors in the north and south. And now we are finally, after a century and a half, CANCELLING their crap.