"I have friends who express their beliefs, generally down at the pub, in their cups, spouting all sorts of racist bullshit" (IB)...I don't have friends like that, I'm not like that and, at the singarounds that we've both been at, IB, I've never heard any of that.
By the way, I've just noticed on the news an English swimmer being welcomed home with Union Jack waving, but Scots doing the same for a Scottish cyclist with Scottish flags - God's speed to the latter: I hate imperialism.