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The Alabama of New England.

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but they can also be more hateful than we realize. studies have shown that it's not really true that white kids are less racist - the reason they're more liberal is that there are more non-white kids. and yeah, maybe in areas like this kids are less likely to be trans-phobic just as they were less likely to be racist in the 60s. That doesn't mean racism and transphobia are going away in other places. And while I'd like to ignore those places as much as everyone else, they're not going away. And I'm not just talking about places like mississippi which go republican no matter what. I'm talking about south central PA where I grew up and which can turn PA red. The rural western parts (not Pittsburgh) always go red. York can sometimes go blue because of the union guys. But culture matters a lot.

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