Contrary to the news headlines of the day, I believe that racism in this country is far less prevalent than what is depicted in the MSM.
And you are way off. The shit that I've heard and that has been said around the country is mind blowing. One small example - I have an uncle that lives in Chelan. Well, a kid at a local elementary school got into trouble because he said his dad expressed a belief about what should happen to the ni__er Obama.
Several high schools in the south still have separate proms (rent the movie "Prom Night in Mississippi").
Two different friends of mine that attended the University of Virginia and Duke University talked about the "N" word being used frequently at parties when only whites are around.
If you don't think a lot of the messages being said by "conservative" commentators about Obama are thinly-veiled racist comments, then you're blind or you're not being honest. Comments like "take our country back," and "he's not one of us" are pretty obvious. There are plenty of websites you can access if you want more examples.
The last thing I will say is that a white man sitting in the state of Washington is in no position to judge racism in the rest of the United States.