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What year was this? I grew up in a midwest town and when I was young, and there were no black residents, but by the time I left there was. There certainly were
by AJ007 10y ago
What year was this? I grew up in a midwest town and when I was young, and there were no black residents, but by the time I left there was. There certainly were other minority racial groups as well as gays as lesbians.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoI am also a former small town Midwesterner. In the 90s, A gay couple moved in a house on the same block where I lived. Even though my parents told me to stay away (like they did with all people we didn't know, even in our "demo"), I don't think it mattered much because we eventually started mowing their lawn. In a mid-size elementary school, I remember a chinese and a black (maybe mixed) family. Another mixed family moved in next door around 2002 (black part was Jamaican). I didn't have a problem with any of them, and neither did anyone else that I knew. By the time I left for college, there were plenty of Mexicans. My dad worked in a prison, which meant he spent his day around thieves, drug addicts, gangsters, murderers, sexual predators, and the like. He gave fear of those kinds of people to the family, and suspected everyone of being one.
- jroseattle 10y agoLate 1980's. There are now smaller minority groups (mostly Mexican/Latino), but that's it. Very small community.