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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That not ALL people born in the deep south are racist and stupid.

I was born and raised in one of those states. I'm frequently in the position of being told an offensive joke, or my new favorite "I would never let my kid go to 'x' college" because of it's location. When this occurs, I like to remind them that no population is 100% homogeneous, that I'm from the place they are denigrating, and up until 5 seconds ago, they had a very high opinion of me.

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Not ALL, but lots........and lots. [/quote]

I'm from a southern state and saw relatively little racism. What I experienced once I moved to nova was shocking. [/quote]

NoVa, like many other places in the US, is approximately a generation removed from outright racially discriminatory policies and practices in everyday life. I'm not going to question the environment you were raised in, but I'd urge you to examine whether your experience of integration was due to deliberate choices by the adults in your life or perhaps because you weren't aware of the racial basis/structure of your community in general. This was my experience as I reflected upon my childhood and adolescence in Texas. The adults around us used a "color blind" approach. It was so successful that a good friend of mine moved to a small municipality outside our large one without knowing or realizing that the reason the small municipality existed as a direct counter to integration of the schools in the '60's. We were always told that the people that chose to live here chose it "for the school."

Did you ever wonder why Falls Church City is a city? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falls_Church#World_War_II[/url] or why there are no public outdoor pools in NoVa?  It would be a rare community in the south that had no vestiges of the systemic segregation and racism of the past.

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