Me trying to explain to Northern and coastal liberals that bigotry is not a regional phenomenon:
notes on this post are a fucking mess
“ I hate the South! Everyone is a bigot! I’m going to move to New York where EVERYONE is progressive like me!”
Having come from Upstate NY myself…No. No they’re not. People in rural NYS are just as bigoted as rural Southerners. The really annoying part is they’re four times as rude about it.
People in NYC can be just as racist as rural Southerners too
NYC white liberals fought against desegregation. The Harlem 9 emerged because of it. Bedstuy’s taxation without Sanitation happened right here in Brooklyn. I’ve seen more racist housing practices here in NYC than I ever did in Atlanta. Systematic racism isn’t regional. It’s white.
NYC is chronically listed as one of the most segregated cities in the country.
New Jersey is a hotbed of white nationalists
The rest of the Northeast is pocked with racist libertarians (hi New Hampshire), may-as-well-be sundown states (how’s it hanging Maine), and colorblind racism (what’s good VT?). Rhode Island habitually votes against removing the term “plantation” from the official state name, Connecticut is…it’s basically NYS, but whiter.
Should I branch out to PA and the mid Atlantic or nah?
I’ve lived in Wisconsin all my life. Believe me, we’ve got the mix of good and bad, and it’s got very little to do with whether you’re rural or urban. Seems to have something to do with whether the weasel that is our current governor has tricked you into thinking he actually cares, though.
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