I grew up in a rural area in the south and seeing people with confederate flags, engaging in blatant racism, and espousing ideas like neo-nazim wasn't unusual.

I grew up in a rural area in the south and seeing people with confederate flags, engaging in blatant racism, and espousing ideas like neo-nazim wasn't unusual. What was unusual was to see these things normally seen in sparsely populated, largely homogeneous in terms of background areas in the middle of the nation's capitol.