I live in a southern state. We have a very few racists, when they act out the press immediately announces and amplifies their actions.

Morgan Freeman once said the way to kill racism is to stop talking about it. He may be right.

Thanks for pointing that out, however I disagree that not talking helps.

I see how it goes in Portugal and the few European countries I lived in, including having experienced myself xenophobism in first hand in some of those countries, and stop talking isn't how it gets sorted out.

But .. isn't that also the way to let racism fester?

What is your end game? If you want something to eventually disappear, then it must eventually disappear from common discourse. Otherwise society keeps fanning the embers of hatred.

Perhaps but that doesn't say anything about which way round the causality goes.