Northern racism wounds differently but leaves the same damage as Southern racism.

Evidence

And people think the racism is so much easier in California than in the South, nonexistent even, when really it’s like the difference between the cold and the flu: both take you out of work, are contagious, and have you coughing or throwing up, wondering what you did wrong to earn all this suffering. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core reframing thesis that slavery’s reach extended through all regions, and to northern complicity narratives. — connects to: White backlash developed nationally, not as a southern import to the North. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 37
• SHARE: The cold-versus-flu metaphor for regional racism is a quotable formulation a reader might send to someone arguing California was post-racial.