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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am OP. I grew up in a place like this. When I went away to college I learned that I had all sorts of backwards ideas about groups of people even though I didn't know it at the time. I didn't realize how hurtful many of the terms we used to describe people were. I know now, and I live in DC now where my kid was raised with what I consider more evolved ideas.

Those of you acting like there aren't differences among people across regions of the country and in rural towns are full of it. I'm not saying that every person there thinks this way, but i am saying (accurately) that there are different norms in these places. [/quote]

It seems you raised your kids the same way you were raised: in a bubble where people all have the same values.

Do they have any experience defending those values? Or even discussing them with people who have different values? Working and living alongside people who have different values?

It sounds like you want them to be able to go forth into world in that bubble, safe from encountering different kinds of people who might challenge them.

Maybe you should have thought of all this sooner and chosen differently (school, I bet). The good news is your kids will be fine. You learned, right?  So will they. 
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