Wow that's refreshing Amanah and Ferd! I know that the south is a little more divided historically anyway but these churches are in areas where many races are represented in the community but not in the church. Also there have been very sour reactions when minority preachers have been invited in (very, very rare but has happened once in each church that I am aware of). The tension was so palpable in one church with a visiting hispanic preacher that he actually said over the pulpit 'You will have your revival the day a black man walks out on this platform'... to which there was almost an audible gasp.
Man, I must just live in a bad place...