are at a very high point, according to Pew. That's particularly true for conservative discrimination against the left, but it's also happening to a lesser but very real degree in blue areas against conservatives, such as in hiring.
We definitely see it here in the Deep South, Gabeana. There has actually been a great deal of growth in this area, with in-migration from other regions, and well over half the county is now people from around the country. It's easy to pick would-be troublemakers out from the crowd, though. They are usually from the original residents here, and they greet you when they must with normal politeness but pointed reserve, at least when among the safety of groups of their own, from which vantage they like to look across unsmilingly at those they reject, at least until they're noticed. A group behavior. I'm being hard on them when I know that many are fine people in many other facets of their lives; but I also know that the potential of strong social conservatives for genuinely evil behavior in the wrong situations is very real, and their attitudes keep reminding one of that. All I've ever done to become an object of hostility to this type was to disclose frankly, in the spirit of honesty, of of being able to speak honestly!, that I was one of those liberals.
Now that our son is doing business in our town, though, I have become very restrained among larger groups and very careful not to say anything that would associate us with him. Mostly not saying inflammatory things is just decent manners, of course, but I'm even more careful about what I say in general. I don't want to get particularly hostile people so angry that they go looking for ways to hurt me -- and find them.
That's with the larger community in general, of course. We of course spend by far most of our time with friends, both original residents and newer arrivals like us, who accept us for who and what we are, and vice versa.
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