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I grew up and live still in what's considered the south. I have also lived up north. The south was bad during jim crow and the forced segregation. After the gov put a stop to that shit, the south desegregated to a point that it is heavily mixed now. HBS (historical black schools) exist but they're not some segregated deal, it's more for the history side and scholarships for people who can't afford the school. Yes there are areas that are more black or white, but this has nothing to do with some sort of force segregation. I went to school in a rural area, I am a minority and played football on a heavily mixed team. Coaches where black/white/latino. My teachers were black and white, it was a completely normal thing growing up. Contrast that with my wife who is from the EU...she saw her first black person when she immigrated here to the USA when she was a kid. As I said before, the south was very segregated but that was 70+ years ago now. The forced integration by the gov. helped everyone to drop the black vs white here in the south. Is there still racism here? Sure, where isn't there racism? But it's nowhere near what some people seem to think it is.
Is classism some how less bad than racism?
That's a whole nother can of worms. Classism exist everywhere. I don't consider it as bad, but it's still bad. It's just way more subtle than racism usually is. It's there but if you're looking for cartoon villains who look down on people then no.