I'm from Rochester but live in NYC so maybe I can share out. NYC is racist. Upstate NY is racist. The difference is approach. In NYC, they use "status" and "class" to marginalized you. Ask anyone who been on 59th st, 5th ave, Madison and so forth, they may let you "walk through" but in reality, they really giving you the side eye.
Rochester on the other hand is small (220,000) but it obviously segregated. The east side is all Latina and blakcs while the west side is black with pockets of whites in their own neighborhood ( south wedge). Everybody stay in their lane since the majority of the city of black. Once you leave those city limits it open seasons. Go up to Greece and see those ginnies try to take your head off for being in their neighborhood. You might be in churchville and see a random confederate flag and all that. Don't get it twisted, you will see the same in NYC too. Just won't be as frequent due to concentration and borough identity
. I live in Harlem and seen a truck with a confederate flag, trump set and all that shyt like 
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