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scotticusphd t1_jcf8qg0 wrote

This is why everyone should leave their backwoods little town at some time in their life. It's so you don't end up becoming a small-minded, hateful, misinformed bigot.

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ell0bo t1_jcffacs wrote

Honestly, that was the best part of the CCC program 80 years ago. It took disaffected youth, taught them building skills, and intermixed them between city and rural.

We could probably use some of that these days.

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MarkFerk t1_jcfjt39 wrote

And people wonder why Philly says the rest of the state hates us. It’s because they do.

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defusted t1_jcfpr6h wrote

bucks county peaks out of the closet

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MarkFerk t1_jcfsua7 wrote

Spoken like someone who has never been there. Edit downvote all u want it’s meaningless. This quote is dumb. It’s not original it’s kinda like hearing the word woke it just makes me tune out to everything u say after.

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Safe_Can_6758 t1_jcg0vrw wrote

Show me the proof. Idiots are everywhere. The media loves to divide us.

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atlashoth t1_jcg5uym wrote

Guys. GUYS. Media here. Your state is filled with propaganda. Now here's a bunch of stats to prove it. Believe it NOW.

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ArcherChase t1_jcg73zu wrote

FDR saved our country and set us on a path for long term prosperity and the conservatives have spent the years since trying to rip that all down. Reagan poured gas on the fire and we are now back to worse than Gilded Age levels of disparity in economic classes.

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tmaenadw t1_jcgcgs7 wrote

Are you sure? The Pacific Northwest has Idaho, and Montana is home to one of the main organizers of the Charlottesville, VA debacle.

While the Pacific Northwest is put down for its liberal big cities, step outside Seattle and Portland, and they have more than their fair share of Aryan Nation jerks with the added northwest twist of trying to justify it using their Norse heritage (as the northwest received a huge influx of immigrants from the Nordic countries).

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Round-Rich-2444 t1_jcgl81r wrote

Lawrence County opens the door, and waves. (I hate this place, all of PA actually)

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Or0b0ur0s t1_jcgtu1x wrote

Every day the FBI doesn't trawl the parking lot of one of those "Berks County Patriots" events and carefully monitor every single person going to them, is one day too many.

It just feels like the Klan left a tiny remnant of the Klan in place as a diversion, doing little, so that the real bigots could form a thousand other groups like this...

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DandersUp2 t1_jcgwplz wrote

This is why Perry keeps getting reelected. 😡

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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_jch3zoy wrote

You couldn't pay me enough to live in that shithole county...
Every time I drive up there, I always have to drive through a neighborhood, I call Confederate alley, because of all the day traitor rags.

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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_jch4vgi wrote

Definitely depends on which part of central PA. I've lived in Harrisburg for years and oh boy... is that BUSY BODY CENTRAL. It's pretty much everyone's hobby to be in everyone's business. Now I live in Lancaster and folks tend to stick to themselves. I don't even know half my neighbors and I'm totally fine with that. It's ironic though, because I've also lived in the subrubs of Philly and people kept to themselves there as well. I think Harrisburg is just such a boring city that getting into people's business and being nosy is the only excitement they have.

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polgara_buttercup t1_jchbttq wrote

Remember the swastika painted on the school rocks in Shippensburg?

Want to see some real Christian Nationalism racism? Find the fb group “Our Shippensburg Community”. There’s some real gems on that page.

Dougie’s district is full of hate and spitefulness.

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GaviFromThePod t1_jchgekz wrote

I mean a white supremacist was the Republican nominee for governor so like what do we expect

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Intrepid-Bear t1_jchh2iw wrote

If you look into the map that is linked into this article, it shows where these incidents took place. The Pennsyltucky region is always addressed in different threads as being extremely racist and far right. This map shows very few incidents there though. Perhaps a population density correlation?

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Griff82 t1_jchwk5t wrote

In college back in the early nineties one of my Professors found out where I was from and told a story about riding his motorcycle on a back road near me. He rolled around a corner into a full on KKK cross-burning. Not cool

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BurntPoptart t1_jci3ols wrote

Yeah it gets taught at home, kids aren't born racist they learn that shit

I'll be starting a blended family of my own someday and nothing gets on my nerves more than racism. It's just plain ignorance.

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PACubsFan23 t1_jcir26j wrote

Alive and well just north of the Lehigh Valley - and it’s sad

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Super_C_Complex t1_jcjkr2r wrote

Less crime? You sure about that?

There's maybe less reported crime. But not less crime.

If you include all the murders the state police refuse to call murders, the violent crime per caps in huntingdon, Bedford, and somerset counties is higher than in Philly.

But a dead drug dealer is not considered a murder there. Unfortunately

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ell0bo t1_jck6e53 wrote

my family had been there for 250 years, I've moved to Philly. Just isn't a friendly area for someone like myself, and rather boring. So much more to do in Philly, just not as much easy access to hiking.

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Varolyn t1_jckvk6i wrote

Bucks county is a weird place. When you hear stories about the place, you would think it's some sort of MAGA stronghold.

Yet, Bucks went blue for the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, blue for the Governor's race, and blue for the US senate race.

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Ok-Competition-3356 t1_jcx5amo wrote

Not being a dick, but are you white? It's my guess as to why you might not see it. Ass hat whites with closet racism act normal around other white ppl imo, until trump got elected then I saw it being seen as acceptable to act a fucktard out loud instead of internally where it would have hopefully died out over generations.

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Ok-Competition-3356 t1_jcx5oc9 wrote

Totally believable headline imo. Hold friends and family accountant for that shit. We as individuals need to speak out and let our own individual circle of friends know that it's unacceptable to act like this it's unacceptable to even think like that. And if that's what people really want to be about then you need to consider that they might not actually be someone worth having in your life. And yeah that includes grandma and mom and dad and everything.

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TheJediJoker t1_jcx660a wrote

I'm white, with alot of mixed and black in my family Many of our friends are of one race or another

My parents raised me to not hate anyone, or see them differently Even though I'm white, I get surprised in how pissed I get hearing anyone use the N word, regardless of their race

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