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Cirque du So-What

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9. Please...just don't do it

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 11:14 AM

Mar 2012

I've lived in 10 states in my lifetime - including 'blue bastions' such as Connecticut, California & Oregon - and I've encountered would-be miscegenationists in every one of them. I hope the day arrives when we're able to revise our preconceived notions about what people are like who live in a certain state or region of the country and accept that liberals can live in Mississippi and conservatives can be found right in San Francisco.

I realize that from a probability standpoint, you're more likely to find these bigots in the deep south and parts of the midwest & plains states, but it does a disservice to all the good people who happen to live in the same locale who don't share those notions.

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