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Originally Posted by killbilly

You're right, but I think I can extend this a little further to accommodate you both...

The more cruder forms of racism and bigotry tend to be more overt from the lower classes - I.E. - the stereotypical brain-dead hick spending a fun-filled Friday night at a Klan cross-burning...

The "upper classes" - again, stereotypically - lean toward an economic form of racism...thus you have 'white flight' and exclusionary practices at private country clubs, etc.

It's all shapes and sizes, subjective and highly emotionally charged - but for the purposes of discussing racism as an entity itself rather than a personal, codifying set of behaviors, the class distinction is appropriate.

Wow, nicely stated!