Another terrible race motivated attack.

[PanzerJaeger]

That was Panzer who did that.

Not my intention. Your call for revisiting Reconstruction just seemed to lack a measure of logical consistency.

This study says nothing in particular about how black people are treated and everything to do with cost of living.

Well, yes, it does require a modest amount of reading between the lines. The South is the only region in America with a growing - both in number and affluence - black middle class, independent and well regarded black educational and social institutions, and large scale black political leadership - leading to considerable in-migration, by far the largest black population growth in the country. Unlike the culture of dependency present in the Northeast and certain West Coast cities, blacks in the South have built businesses, wealth, and a society on their own, which has actually allowed a number of them to escape the cycle of poverty we're conditioned to believe 'institutional racism' keeps blacks in forever. You'll never see the kind of rioting in the South that you did in Baltimore or LA, because the blacks in the South actually have a vested interest in the society they've built (I'll refrain from sharing an opinion on the quality of that society). The economy is doing better than the Rust Belt, sure, but it's definitely not booming throughout most of the South. Thus, the insidious racism you describe either isn't all that insidious or not what you believe it to be. Appeals to some caricature of what popular culture thinks the South is based on events that took place 50 years ago are always fun, but demographics don't lie.

The racial argument employed by Racists and their ilk is "because they got more melanin in their skin"

Don't forget those troublesome IQ scores...