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oyster  ·  2049 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Country pride: what I learned growing up in rural America

That stuff was always around when she was growing up, the people just never felt like anything was under threat. Now they’ve all worked themselves up into a frenzy and bam we get dumb t-shirts. Nobodies racist when the entire towns white. Everybody is just friendly country folks unaware of how terrified they are of anywhere outside their town until the suburbs start creeping in.