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Oklahoma defends Bibles-in-schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify
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I don’t live in the Bible Belt part and I agree with your views but there are more good people in the South than you’d think. It’s not like any party wins 99% to 1%. In New Orleans, I consider us more Caribbean than Southern. South Florida too. Everywhere is complex.
In the Midwest, there were also bad people.
But the good people ALWAYS stood up to them, or at least mostly didn't tolerate them.
The south tolerates scum in ways nowhere else really does that I've seen.
I'll give you those points, and there were many good people in the south.
But the people who rule the south are so unimaginably corrupt and use the evil to cover it. They're using bigotry and hatred as a weapon for their economic purposes and that's a big problem.
And one day we’ll have democracy in the South. I have no intention of defending the South. But get you a copy of an old Green Book or ask black people about Boston. There are racists everywhere. There were sundown towns in Oregon. Idaho is still like 30% white supremacists. C’oeur D’alene harassed Utah’s women’s basketball team last year.
Lived in Boston for over a decade, married my wife there.
There are racists, but the difference between Boston, Indiana, and the south was that nobody would do anything because they knew the cops wouldn't help them (well, in Boston it was marginal in places).
The south, the sheriff would help cover anything up, you could just disappear or have an accident. No questions asked, it happened to people, everyone knew.
I doubt there will ever be democracy in the south, there is far too much pride, and I haven't seen it improve much in my lifetime.
The major difference now is that everybody knows how it is, whereas before people pretended it wasn't.