I like the bold sentanceYou could live a good life here on a California state pension, especially if you sold your California home, took the money, and bought a much bigger house in North Idaho. And you could leave behind all the things you dealt with on a daily basis back in California. “I’m not racist, but I just got tired of being a minority in Los Angeles, tired of explaining English to 7-Eleven clerks and counting their change for them,” one California transplant said in 1994. And North Idaho was nothing if not very, very white: Today, it’s 96.2% white; in 1990, it was 98.4%.
Some articulate their moves as the search for “cultural homogeneity”: “I get accused of racism often for this view,” one transplant wrote on a forum wondering why cops move to North Idaho, “but I believe I have the same right to my views as anyone and it’s NOT about race.” But that cultural homogeneity — coupled with a “mind your own business” attitude — is precisely what appealed to Richard Butler, who situated the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden, just north of Coeur d’Alene, in the late ’70s. Same for Randy Weaver, a sometime Aryan Nations rally attendee who moved to a spread of remote land called Ruby Ridge with his family to prepare for the apocalypse, later facing off with federal agents for 11 days over illegal weapons charges.
Well, I can kind of understand how needing to know a foreign language just to go through my daily routine in my own country can be a little frustrating. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a necessity here in Tucson but it sure comes in handy pretty often.
I expect Spanish was being spoken in Tucson before English so I would not exactly call it a foreign language
I would mock that quote in the op if I didn't have the honesty to admit I probably lived most of my adult life existing in the cultural equivalent of Northern Idaho. My job, my home and almost all of the places I go, the people there are always at least 85% White, 90% Christian or secular, 99% English speaking and darn near 100% professional or highly skilled. In fact, since my third year in U-grad, all of my classrooms and places of employment have been 90% male too. :shock:
I guess I live in Northern Idaho.
In California, what you saw in 1994 has now coalesce into “language ghettos” with little effective law enforcement due to distrust of law enforcement in general. They assume it’s like the countries they fled, yet they create the very conditions they have fled - crooks, thugs, gangs, and hopelessness.
I would mock that quote in the op if I didn't have the honesty to admit I probably lived most of my adult life existing in the cultural equivalent of Northern Idaho. My job, my home and almost all of the places I go, the people there are always at least 85% White, 90% Christian or secular, 99% English speaking and darn near 100% professional or highly skilled. In fact, since my third year in U-grad, all of my classrooms and places of employment have been 90% male too. :shock:
I guess I live in Northern Idaho.
I'm three years older than Trump so my situation is different. I went through grade school, high school & college without having one single minority
classmate or schoolmate. Never knew anyone who spoke spanish until I joined the National Guard after college in the late 60's. We had two
immigrants from Germany in High School but were they considered minorities no, previously schooled in Europe they spoke English well.
I grew up in a very ethnic neighborhood, but the darkest skin in it was Italian. And, there were a lot---the names in my 8th grade yearbook almost all end in vowels. Mine too.
I grew up in a very ethnic neighborhood, but the darkest skin in it was Italian. And, there were a lot---the names in my 8th grade yearbook almost all end in vowels. Mine too.
Odd, to me, that so many of you grew up without minorities around.
I grew up in the South. Went to elementary school with black kids, starting working with black folks at 13. Took Spanish in High School because the local Latino population was rising and it seemed useful. Had Indian and Japanese professors at the local university. About a third of the people I see in a given day are non-white, and it is never an issue unless someone else decides to make it one.
And yet I'm the one allegedly from Racist Central...
The town I grew up in was about 20 miles from the GW Bridge in Jersey. All ancestry came from Europe both north & south. Few towns had as
many Dutch sir name people as ours. Van Have, Van Duran, Van der Wall, Van Kampen, Van Dam just to name a few I almost felt like a minority, not really.
I went south to college, William & Mary. Robert Gates, Bush #2 & Obama's Sec. of Defense was a class ahead of me, only met him once or twice
when he came in to our dorms to shake hands as he was running for Clas President or something like that. My graduating class was 1966 the
last class before the college was integrated. Maybe I'm just provincial or homespun but from grade school through college everything suited me just fine.
I grew up in the South.
And yet I'm the one allegedly from Racist Central...
Do you think the situation in Puerto Rico would be any different if they didn't speak Spanish? And do you think even 50% of the country knows their part of our country.Really? Allegedly? Really?
So racism hasn't been an issue in the south?
Dear god man....:doh
I grew up in the South.
And yet I'm the one allegedly from Racist Central...
Really? Allegedly? Really?
So racism hasn't been an issue in the south?
Dear god man....:doh
I'm from Houston and that's in the south and our number one export is kindness. We all get alongIf you're not reading his post LOOKING to be offended and take it in the worst case possible, it seems he's not suggesting Racism "hasn't been an issue in the south", but rather he's suggesting in his life span it's not some issue that is massively isolated or unique to the South despite the stereotype of it being "racist central". That despite the stereotyping that is wantonly done of Southerners, plenty of them experienced a more diverse experience or less issues of racism than people who haven't lived I nteh south.
In the U.S., the South is Racist Central because of its history as the region that fought to protect the institution of slavery, imposed Jim Crow and resisted desegregation. Because of this legacy, you have a lot of very poor Blacks in the South. So, it's easy for rich Whites to stereotype poor Blacks. Poverty (especially urban poverty) carries with it many social ills and it's very easy to associate the problems of poverty with the race of those who are poor.
Places like Wisconsin where there are few minorities tend to be less racists than places like Alabama where there is a history of racial conflict.
If you're not reading his post LOOKING to be offended and take it in the worst case possible, it seems he's not suggesting Racism "hasn't been an issue in the south", but rather he's suggesting in his life span it's not some issue that is massively isolated or unique to the South despite the stereotype of it being "racist central". That despite the stereotyping that is wantonly done of Southerners, plenty of them experienced a more diverse experience or less issues of racism than people who haven't lived I nteh south.
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