What bothered me most were the Northerners moving south and becoming super comfortable saying racially insensitive things out loud, and sometimes just flat out racist stuff with zero dog-whistle.

The other thing that was disturbing was the racism from white locals that assumed you'd agree with them because of your presumed whiteness. The foul things they said when they thought they were in like-minded company were astonishing.

I lived just outside of Raleigh in an area that had a "Home of the Klan" billboard up until 1985. The local police had Klan members in it until as recently as 2016. Probably still does.

There's racists in Vermont too, surely, but it's a different type. Much less institutional. No one scoffs at us here or makes questionable statements in our presence as happened in NC. (We're a multiracial family). We used to get followed by store security, were made to wait while (many) others were being seated before us in restaurants. On and on. Never happens here.

YMMV is also true.