Where is it worse for African Americans, the Ghetto North or the Rural South?

We've all heard about how much inequality there was during the civil rights movement and how there is a racist undercurrent in the south today but what I have to ask is where is it really worse for African Americans. I've driven through states like Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Carolina, and Tennessee and the Blacks there while poor in some backwards regions did not look like they were in as violent of a place like East or West Baltimore, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, North Philadelphia, South Chicago, Harlem, East Cleveland, Newark and similar such areas in the North which I've also been through.