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Appalachia, both currently and historically, has greater-than-average rates of racially-mixed marriages.
Despite that, I can personally attest to a very… lax… attitude towards racist stereotypes and ‘humor’.
It’s a strange region.
Who is each?
The top one is Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the U.S.
The bottom guy is Parson Brownlow, who was the governor of Tennessee and later a U.S. senator. I had to image search him because I wasn’t familiar with his face.
From Wikipedia:
Brownlow aligned with the Radical Republicans in the state, supporting President Abraham Lincoln’s policies and spent much of his term opposing the policies of conservative Republicans. Brownlow’s gubernatorial policies, which were both autocratic and progressive, helped Tennessee become the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union in 1866, exempting it from the lengthy federal military reconstruction inflicted on most of the South.
Soon after the Civil War, Brownlow and Radical Republicans utilized their control of state government to enfranchise male African-American former slaves with the right to vote and run for public office in Tennessee and extend other civil rights to all former slaves.
