I'm from the south.

[Prism]

108. I see this in Berkeley all the time

I think what drives me bonkers is all the anti-science food and medical woo, and then when I point out how silly it is, they treat me like I'm the uneducated troglodyte.

Berkeley is also full of racism (just get them talking about Oakland to see it all come out).

And classism thrives here like mad.

Now I find this fairly amusing. You have never seen such a set of people with such high opinions of themselves as they wreak as much damage as they do. As long as you mouth the right platitudes as if they were prayers, you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want. And boy, do they.

I encounter a lot of bigotry, narrow-mindedness, and ideological tribalism here.

Social plumage. You nailed it one, there.

Whenever people bemoan how anti-science Southerners are, I counter that they've clearly never lived in the pampered enclaves where the Mercolites thrive.

But, I'd rather be in a liberal area with tolerant laws than anywhere else.