Nah, most whites don't fantasize about blacks at all. You said it yourself- blacks are segregated away from whites so we whites are already living and working in places where we seldom see blacks so there's nothing to fantasize about.
You must live in Vermont, which is the whitest state in the United States. I live in diverse Georgia and had many whites on my prison caseload while employed by the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation.
Individuals can live in a diverse state within an area or small town that isn't diverse.
In CA the imprisonment rate for black men is 4,236 per 100,000- ten times the imprisonment rate for white men which is 422 per 100,000. For serious felonies- because the white general population is 5 times the black population- there are roughly equal amounts of black and white prisoners. And it's possible that your prison because of its location or other factors may have had a different proportion of white to black prisoners.
I don’t think whites “fantasize” about that. What I do think is that we have become increasingly disconnected from people who are different than us (whoever “us” may be). Wealthier people do not regularly interact with poorer people. Highly educated people do not regularly interact with poorly-educated people. Urbanites rarely interact with people in rural America. Races rarely interact with other races — at a deep, personal level (and this has little to do with racism). This has been happening through geographic separation for a fairly long time — and that separation has been exacerbated by the Internet where people can — and I think naturally do — gravitate towards interacting with people who think, believe, and act very much like themselves.
Black communities remain the most segregated group in the United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_segregation_in_the_United_States
According to Andrew Hacker, in "Two Nations: Black & White, Hostile, and Unequal"; most whites fantasize about America being a country without blacks.
Nah, most whites don't fantasize about blacks at all. You said it yourself- blacks are segregated away from whites so we whites are already living and working in places where we seldom see blacks so there's nothing to fantasize about.
You must live in Vermont, which is the whitest state in the United States. I live in diverse Georgia and had many whites on my prison caseload while employed by the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation.
Individuals can live in a diverse state within an area or small town that isn't diverse.
In CA the imprisonment rate for black men is 4,236 per 100,000- ten times the imprisonment rate for white men which is 422 per 100,000. For serious felonies- because the white general population is 5 times the black population- there are roughly equal amounts of black and white prisoners. And it's possible that your prison because of its location or other factors may have had a different proportion of white to black prisoners.
I don’t think whites “fantasize” about that. What I do think is that we have become increasingly disconnected from people who are different than us (whoever “us” may be). Wealthier people do not regularly interact with poorer people. Highly educated people do not regularly interact with poorly-educated people. Urbanites rarely interact with people in rural America. Races rarely interact with other races — at a deep, personal level (and this has little to do with racism). This has been happening through geographic separation for a fairly long time — and that separation has been exacerbated by the Internet where people can — and I think naturally do — gravitate towards interacting with people who think, believe, and act very much like themselves.