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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  To be honest, I love the homes in Lorton.  OH, & by the way, we are AA.  I guess I'm looking for a needle in a haystack :D [/quote]I am not gay, but I am black, I grew up in northern Va and I'd worry about that also.  It was a long time ago, but I clearly remember being taught that the civil war was about states rights and that slaves were obviously better off under slavery - the proof was that they didn't move after slavery ended.   :shock:  I just didn't know enough to question these things.  Also routinely saw confederate flags, even Jefferson Davis highway bugs me.  I remember the first time I was called a nigger.  A lot of time has passed, but I just wouldn't want to live there.[/quote]

was this the 60s?[/quote]

Yes, when was this? I'm not doubting you but I grew up in NoVa in the 80s and 90s and remember nothing like this (other than Jefferson Davis highway, which I agree is awful). In fact I remember moving to a city in southern Virginia for college in the late 90s and seeing a sign in a public building about "Lee-Jackson-King" day, and thinking "what the hell is that?" because in my NoVa public schools we just learned about Martin Luther King Jr day, not the offensive combo the rest of the state adopted. [/quote]

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