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I was raised in the rural midwest and moved to San Francisco for the same reasons as you. It is shocking how much religious extremism, homophobia, and racism ex
by rajbot 9y ago
I was raised in the rural midwest and moved to San Francisco for the same reasons as you. It is shocking how much religious extremism, homophobia, and racism exist in the midwest. Growing up in the midwest, kids and adults alike would come up us and tell us we were going to hell, or to go back to where we came from, or call us racial slurs like "sandnigger". Grown adults had no problem harassing little kids at school or the playground. People shot our windows a few times. Racism is so widespread in Missouri that the NAACP has issued a travel advisory and warned minorities to not travel there. Earlier this year a Garmin engineer was murdered in Kansas by a racist who walked into a bar and shot two Indians. There is no way I would raise my children in the midwest.
- DuskStar 9y ago>Missouri >Kansas We have very different ideas of what states qualify as the midwest.
- rajbot 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
- DuskStar 9y agoHuh. To me, being from Michigan, those are both the south.
- muninn_ 9y agoYeah, the "Midwest" is a stupid term. Great Lakes region is where Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc. call home. I don't think there's much in common with somebody who is from Nebraska or Kansas anymore than I think somebody in rural California or some random place in Arizona has much in common with people from the Great Lakes region.