This is sadly true. I currently live in Houston, and I've seen it first-hand. Bouncers will more-or-less throw out anyone who isn't white. (I avoid those places

This is sadly true. I currently live in Houston, and I've seen it first-hand. Bouncers will more-or-less throw out anyone who isn't white. (I avoid those places, but I live near several of them (midtown) and I've seen it happen several times.) It's not limited to Houston, however. Tuscaloosa (Alabama) had several bars with similar policies. There it was a "dress code" (basically business casual--in a college-targeted bar) that was only enforced if you weren't white. The rest of the country has plenty of racism as well, but it's much more blatant in the south.