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Most people I've been around think like this. So in Lynchburg and the very western suburban part of Richmond Virginia at least they do. Younger people who aren
by swiley 8y ago
Most people I've been around think like this. So in Lynchburg and the very western suburban part of Richmond Virginia at least they do.
Younger people who aren't in (have graduated) college seem to be a little more reasonable.
- grandmczeb 8y agoI'm not sure if you have a very strange friend group, but I've never heard someone express a similar opinion.
- swiley 8y agoI definitely do, it's not really a location thing.
- eitally 8y ago<waves hi!> As a native Lynchburger who subsequently spent about 15 years in the Raleigh area before moving to San Jose a few years ago, ... I never felt this way growing up in Lynchburg. Yes, Lynchburg is approximately 50% white / 50% black, with approximately 0% any other ethnicity, and the majority of the white population is either exurbs or specific segregated parts of the city. But even though I grew up in Boonsboro I went to RS Payne Elementary downtown and then EC Glass for high school ... in HS, I freely wandered around that part of town after school (usually while waiting for sports practice of some sort). I never felt endangered. Nor, afaik, did my [mostly white] friends. That's a stupid anecdote, but I think it actually used to be better than it is now, and that mass & social media have created so much fearmongering that more people are hyper-insecure and wary of any unplanned interaction with anyone not in their in-group.