[walrus01]

Merritt Island / Cape Canaveral area.

In a work environment, I in no way brought up the subject of anything controversial race/religious/ethnic related.

At the time I worked for a market sector that does a lot of telecom-related work overseas and in developing nation environments. Probably with a higher than usual percentage of ex military people.

What i meant by "As a random white person", by virtue of me being pale skinned and from a northern country, other people took it as tacit acceptance that they could raise their bigoted views towards me... Basically the sort of folks who go on endlessly about how Sharia Law is coming to the united states, and barack obama is a secret muslim kenyan communist manchurian candidate.

What I have found in the US is that racism is alive and well everywhere. In the US southeast it's more overt.

[goshx]

Well, you are not getting the picture of an entire state by that experience alone.

I live in South Florida and the mix of culture here perhaps helps to alleviate racism. But yes, I agree with you that racism is alive an well in the US. That was very noticeable when I moved here from Brazil.