James Madison town

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, the town votes overwhelming blue. https://www.vpap.org/localities/harrisonburg-city-va/election-results-list/?election=10135

I know plenty of bigots that are democrats and republicans that are open minded so can people please stop assuming blue=accepting and red=bigot? It’s the same as any other stereotype of anyone and amounts to your own bias.

OP - I had the same concern regarding our background as a minority and when I looked up details about the school found no concerning issue. They have lots of groups on campus to provide support for many students of many backgrounds and it might help for your nerves to look one up and even call and ask about it. Even if your kid doesn’t join the group, knowing they’re there can help them. Good luck!

Calm down. It was just an observation.

I don’t need to calm down. It’s a loaded observation just like every other that classifies people into groups based on personal bias.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JMU is in a great town. Your use of rednecks is disgusting. It’s in the Shenandoah Valley.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think any of the schools that are rural in distance anywhere you will find the same type of flags driving through to get to them especially in the south. I was worried about that as well being mixed going to a diff school in VA but the campus is a different setting then the small town brains pulling up in the truck with their lame bumper decals at their local Kroger.

We are a Brown family that does a lot of road trips. Anytime you travel 10-20 miles outside a big city/large suburbs, you run across these artifacts - VA, MD, Pennsylvania, NJ, NY, Ohio, Michigan - you get the drift. Every time we stop to eat along those routes, we see all kinds of people - Black, White, Asian coexisting. Most people are friendly and tend to leave you alone. Personally, I'd be more afraid to drive around, say, downtown DC or Baltimore, at midnight vs. doing so through small town West Virginia with trump posters at every home.

+100

[Anonymous]

I’m imagining the reaction had OP been asking about a school in a city - and all those “urban dwellers” she might have to encounter. I guess calling people “rednecks” is still acceptable to this crowd?

[Anonymous]

By the way, Harrisonburg is a city. It’s a small city, but it’s a city. It’s not a “town”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m imagining the reaction had OP been asking about a school in a city - and all those “urban dwellers” she might have to encounter. I guess calling people “rednecks” is still acceptable to this crowd?

Actually, multiple people have called OP out on it. It isn’t acceptable and people have told OP that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are visiting JMU with our daughter in a few weeks. The scenery of Appalachian Virginia looks gorgeous but worried a bit about how rural it is. Is there a lot of “rednecks” in the town and is it an accepting place? Kid is biracial and was a bit turned off by the Confederate flags as we were heading into Blacksburg to tour Tech

You do realize this is a bigotry right?

Liberals are such hypocrites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are visiting JMU with our daughter in a few weeks. The scenery of Appalachian Virginia looks gorgeous but worried a bit about how rural it is. Is there a lot of “rednecks” in the town and is it an accepting place? Kid is biracial and was a bit turned off by the Confederate flags as we were heading into Blacksburg to tour Tech

You do realize this is a bigotry right?

Liberals are such hypocrites

+1. All the other words are not PC, but "redneck" still is? How is that?