"Things like the state of Alabama implementing voter ID laws and then shutting down DMV offices in poor black counties" "But what I was talking about was funct

"Things like the state of Alabama implementing voter ID laws and then shutting down DMV offices in poor black counties" "But what I was talking about was functional racism in terms of daily life" I think you're the one missing the point here. If disenfranchising a large part of the population based on their race, by politicians who more or less campaign on this sort of platform (though in coded language) and win elections repeatedly is not "functional racism", I don't know what is. And of course you know very well that voting rights is not an isolated case of the racism exhibited by southern states. That is not to say that only the southern states have racist people but what this sort of blatant, racist policy-making at the highest level is signalling to people of minority races is to stay away from those states altogether if you can. There's a reason immigrant communities are strongest in states like California and NewYork and not Alabama or Mississippi.