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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in SC for a while and couldn't believe the racist and prejudiced things I heard. Like pp said, some had never met a Jewish person and were fascinated when one moved in nearby. [/quote]

I could have written this. When I lived in SC an Indian cab driver pointed out where the KKK meets. He himself was a grad student and he said he felt like an alien in SC. When I lived in NC someone told me the apartment where I rented had "too many niggers." I kid you not. I attended a diversity training and the way the good ol southern boys were raised was appalling. One admitted that he did not know it was awful to use "Jew" as a verb. Quite a few had never met a Jew, a black person or any other exotic people before. I'm Jewish and my best friend in NC was black. We used to meet for drinks to laugh and cry about the crazy place we had chosen to live. My favorite was when someone at work found out I was Jewish and asked me if I knew "Joe Goldberg" or "Jennifer Stein." Those were the Jews he met when he did an internship in NJ. I have never lived in NJ. He genuinely thought all the Jews knew eachother.  I lasted less than a year there.[/quote]

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