"Someones going to get shot""

I was driving through a southern state a couple weeks back and wound up in a mall looking for a chick fil a - kid's request. In walked two young good looking black teenagers - with two white gals on their arms. My first reaction was 'holy crap someone's going to get shot.' But the south is different now, not like when I was a teen, and besides the overly enthusiastic public displays of affection (another social standard that seems to have changed), nothing unpleasant happened. Thank goodness. If I don't like all change, I do like this change.