As a black woman who has lived in and visited all but 7 states, including red and blue states (mostly among the highly educated) I can say that states with low minority numbers consider us less of a threat, which is why lynching, Klan terrorism, police brutality, and Jim Crow were/are more prominent in states w/higher minority populations.

Yes, we experience racism everywhere (even deep blue California [ex Rodney King] and New York [ex Eric Garner]), but lynching postcards were mostly from the South and Midwest. I’ve experienced more overt hostility in MS and NC, not UT and IA (though the latter two did feel creepy, as though I were a zoo exhibit).

But thanks for looking into this. Stimulating civil conversations is healthy. Y