[Dean]

I'm with Austin on this one.

I admit to being a bit surprised the first time I visited the South by the significantly different ratio of ethnic diversity from what I was used to having lived my whole life on the West coast, but it was not fear. Fear only crept in when I made a wrong turn in my rental car at night and ended up somewhere not so good and some guy came up to the car at a stop sign asking what I "needed".

I knew I was in a bad place before I saw anybody of any color and a clean shaven white guy in jeans and a T-shirt in the same neighborhood doing the same thing would have freaked me out just as much.