Yep, it’s funny when you travel and meet people, and somehow every state and region has a funny quirk of hating the place that has the most Black people nearby.
shit, speaking as a missiouri resident, if theres two places republicans despise in this state its Kansas City and St Louis
(I know you know this), but this is even true and jarring at micro-levels. That town, that neighborhood, that elementary school etc
The way some people in CA talk about Oakland, Richmond, Inglewood, Crenshaw, Hawthorne, etc.
In Houston, there's an arrow that can be seen on pretty much every map describing trends.
Arguably the absolute fucking weird example of this I ever encountered was the visible distaste a woman from Taos had for Albuquerque. Blacks make up maybe 2% of the state population--- but where are they located? 🤔 This is totally why certain elements are trying kill free buses there too.
In Wisconsin they will literally say “we would win if it weren’t for Milwaukee and Madison”. Oh you mean where all the people actually live? And the only cities with black people?
It’s the same here in rural New York State. The locals hate Buffalo/Rochester because in their mind, they are islands of Black people.
I'm thinking that if anyone hadn't before, by now they should have the thread that R's are racist / a racist political party.
Staggering coincidence
the way republicans talk about Chicago is the way Washingtonians talk about Tacoma
Minnesotans love being scared of Minneapolis. Right up there with remembering the Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Wouldn't know what to do with their time otherwise.
"Des Moines, Iowa is so scary!"
Let’s just talk about Atlanta —Inside the Perimeter and Outside the Perimeter When I first moved to ATL I was told I needed a gun if I went ITP !!
As someone that lives in Birmingham, good god, it is unreal the way a lot of people talk about this place. They act as if no one has ever survived visiting.
every election here in Wisconsin comes down to Republicans talking about how Milwaukee and Madison shouldn't count
(Laughing in New York City)
Other boroughs and anything north of 116th. Though we do also dunk on Staten Island.
Hmmm. I live in metro Detroit and more people i know hate Macomb or some of the other boring trumpy burbs than downtown....
I moved from Denver to Oakland in 2007. Stopped in Reno at one point to check into a motel for the night. Had my 🐈 with me so it was clear I was moving - the clerk asked me where I was going. "Bay Area." "San Francisco is great!" "I'm moving to Oakland." ".... oh."
"Her face fell" - understatement.
My family friends when they heard I was moving to Newark (insert clutching their pearls emoji)
This holds true at the municipal, regional, state, and national levels. It’s as much a truism of political life in the US as there is.
I come from a town in Iowa that people called Little Chicago, it took me a long time to figure out they meant "there are black people"
Yeah in Cleveland the river is the boundary, people make up all sorts of excuses about why they don’t want to go to the east side.
Whenever certain people say “sketchy part of town” I know exactly wtf they mean
Had this conversation with students and noticed they caught on to that issue also.
As absurd as it seems, people here in rural Vermont talk about visiting Burlington as if they’re headed to Mogadishu. That’s Burlington Vermont!
Memphis. There’s a level of unreasoning hatred of Memphis from the white people living around Memphis that I never understood until I realized it was just racism.
