Or were you thrown out for other reasons that are against the law?

...where the guy says he's been thrown out of nicer places that this.

It uses a comedy technique known as being self-effacing, see Dangerfield, Rodney.

In other words, it's a light-hearted way to say that the racist RV park was probably not much of a loss, there are nicer places to be than that. Most anything would probably be better for the couple.

Sometimes humor can be used to highlight the absurdity of a situation.

The situation is patently absurd.

However the couple may take this as an opportunity to secure nicer surroundings, and later in life, drive past the RV park and comment 'we lived there once?'

That's what people do. They dust-off and move on.

To answer the question, no, my wife and I are not inter-racial. But she has dark hair, dark complexion and is kind of curvy. The desk clerk at the YMCA once went to call the police when a 'Mexican woman' tried to pick up three blonde children. At first it hurts, but we laugh about it now.

The couple has my complete support and I wish them all the best.

And for taking the trouble to respond to a somewhat unfriendly question. My apologies, and welcome to DU

I had a Columbia bike growing up with a leopard print banana seat. I didn't care about the looks, it was mine. And fast! Until it was stolen. Which is how it came up in conversation.

Amazing this bull keeps going on.

I did some years ago and was amazed by how backwards everything was even compared to Alabama, which I'd just left. It's like time has stood still for about 70 years. Now I was in the northern part of the state and things might be better in Baton Rouge and points south where the tourists are , but holy shit! I was glad to be driving a beat up pickup truck so I blended, just hoping nobody would notice the NM license plate on it and mistake me for a job stealin' Messican.

Mainly stuck to I-55 and I-20 on our way to or from my uncle's house near Alexandria, Louisiana. One time though we went down 61 at Vicksburg to Natchez then across instead of crossing in to Louisana and taking 65. That was an experience driving down that way.

Sometimes I would kind of like to go down and visit my uncle's family in Louisiana. Maybe one of these years I'll go down again while he and my aunt are still in good health.

Thanks. It's been one of those days, one brain fart after another.

B.C.

The park owner will state that he has a "sincere and deeply held belief" against accommodating interracial marriage.

(Church of Ignorant Bigotry)

Shame on him, his community, and his mother-in-law for their bigotry.

...my wife and I went to Chicago, and then on to Niagara Falls.

We got married in 1996, but we never actually had a honeymoon back then.

While in Chicago, we stopped at a Pizza Place.

Anyway, there were tables on the street in front of the place, so we sat there. So did a guy with what appeared to be his two sons. The waiter came around to his table and took his order. Soon after that, they all looked towards us, and gave us dirty looks. They got up and left, after giving their order to the waiter, and just left the menus on the table, leaving the waiter to wonder what had happened.

We felt like we had AR-15s strapped to our backs or something, the way that they looked at us and scurried out of there after seeing us.

I mean, what were they so afraid of?

Good luck to you

Anyway, that's fucked up.

Sorry that happened to you guys.

I mean, obviously there are bigots everywhere, but in my experience Chicago's a pretty diverse and fairly evolved place.

I am surprised and disappointed.

Like greektown. Polish neighborhoods, etc

But ive spent a lot of time in chicago and it has always been very publicly integrated and open. Ive never seen anything remotely resembling what that post describes.

We were surprised, as well.

is reverse discrimination. Give the bigots a taste of their own medicine. Next time some one like this bigot walk in some place toss him out and say sorry I don't serve bigots

Announce that he has a deeply held and sincere belief against serving bigots and then cut off their electric power for good.

Interracial marriage is privately frowned upon by many more than people want to believe in both the north and south. She has already had to deal with a couple of times with openly aggressive and angry black guys when they are in public. Not so much other women.

Sad.

in upstate New York.

I am honestly saying that one of several reasons my wife and I put an offer on our house (10 years ago) was because in the time it took for the real estate agent to meet us at the local deli, we said hello to two inter-racial couples.

And if someone does say something crappy, let me know about it.

It's light years from Mississippi but I still worry about them.

and mixed White-Native marriages are extremely common up there. I have many cousins who are mixed race. It was completely normal to me as a kid, being against interracial relationships in completely outside my comprehension.

Next to the elevated subway in Brooklyn. Down the block from a mob family 'social club.'

And around the corner from a city park.

On several occasions my dog came back with really expensive hats or scarves, usually with blood on them.

Everything was normal to me as a kid.

...I'd have hid under my bed every night for fear Joe Pesci or somebody was going to bust in and start shooting up the place.

in a western state now, and I can honestly and without equivocation say that such attitudes are just as bad in the north as they are in the south, there's just a different way of dealing with and displaying them. Actually, it's pretty bad in the west, too, especially in regards to white-Indian marriages/relationships.

I live in a certain western state that is VERY openly racist and discriminatory against its quite large Indian population; it's like the 1950's south in many areas of the state. Including, and perhaps especially, in an area where a certain national monument is carved, a "shrine of freedom" that is a direct slap in the face to the people who once roamed and owned the very land upon which it is carved and who dealt with attempted genocide against them.

My husband and I are white and his ex-wife was Indian. They dealt with several openly racist and discriminatory incidents and constant attitudes.

Back in the early 90s the racist dumbfuck population of Dubuque were up to all sorts of nasty shit.

On Monday, polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) revealed that 29 percent of likely GOP voters surveyed in Mississippi believe that interracial marriage should be illegal.

if you were to give the same poll anonymously anywhere in the north you'd likely find the same result. Racial animus, bigotry, hatred and ignorance are by no means at all limited to one area of the country.

If anything, the north is better at managing perception, but the south absolutely doesn't have a monopoly on racism.

to be as overt about it, both north, south or west, but it does exist in nearly equal measure everywhere and is more prevalent than you imagine. One positive note, if you can call it that, is the guy was so up front about his ignorant bigotry. At least one doesn't have to correctly interpret the slimy, dog whistle, weasel words. To borrow a quote from Lincoln, at least they exhibit their bigotry pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

and now hopefully they will make enough cash to buy a house.

say 'we don't rent to you people' and they do, every single day.

IIRC 97% of people 30 years old and younger approve of interracial marriage. I grew next to a reservation and mixed White-Native marriages are widespread, I have relatives married to Native Americans or are part Native and so interracial relationships were completely normal to me growing up, I dated 2 Ojibwe gals in high school for Christ's sake.

Going to the rural South must be like going back 50 years in a time machine...

...should not even be asked if they approve or not.

None of their damn business.

FWIW, my wife insists that the Millennials are the one's that are going to save us all from ourselves.

Good luck, and bring plenty of soap, paper towels and garbage bags.

You have a lot of cleaning up to do.

A white lady showed up to apply for the apartment. Later she brought her fiancée, a black man, to see the apartment. My father said he could not rent to them at that time. They asked if it was because they were an interracial couple. He replied that no, it was because they were not married. They married two weeks later and my father rented to them. I used to call him "Archie Bunker", but after that I went back to calling him "Daddy".

....that is a cool story. Even though times have changed, I could see someone using that criteria today.

Or was it something else that rhymes with "trigger"? As me Scots grandpa might have said, "I hae me doots."