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Orrex

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36. The South has truly lost its lock on the racist stereotype

Reply to Texasgal (Reply #23)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 02:13 PM

Dec 2015

If it ever really had it in the first place.

The recent ugliness and hatred regarding the Syrian refugees should be all the proof anyone needs to confirm that racism is alive and well and prospering in most states in the union.

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