• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This is a big point. I briefly took a job in Northern California two years ago and met more openly-racist bigots and transphobes than I ever met in my Appalachian hometown

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      11 months ago

      I’ve made comments about how Mississippians are not what they’re made out to be. Not a welcome comment around here.

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      11 months ago

      There’s an important distinction to be made between rednecks and hillbillies. The south would like you toe believe that anything non-urban is redneck, this is not so.