• CMonster@discuss.online
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    2 months ago

    I dont think the lines are the same anymore. Social media and 24/7 news has given people in plenty of northern regions the same viewpoints. A civil war would not be north vs. south. it would be neighbor vs neighbor

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      2 months ago

      I always hear this.

      I am brown and grew up in the Midwest.

      Then my family moved to the south.

      This is like comparing Canadians who care about hockey with the Khmer Rouge exterminating much of their population.

      The south is just infinitely worse in literally every way.

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        2 months ago

        there are a lot of nice people in the south. there are a lot of brown people in the south. you think everyone needs to suffer brutality for what the worst do?

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          2 months ago

          In the Midwest there are bad people too.

          The difference?

          In the Midwest when a racist is being a racist, people say shit, they stand up to them!

          In the south the bystanders just laugh, at worst they laugh nervously.

          Which is why it’s a vile and corrupt society.

          Police yourself, or don’t be surprised to be judged as evil.

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              2 months ago

              I agree.

              But that’s vastly better.

              The deep, DEEP seated racial hatred of the south is a terrifying thing and is something that has lasted literal centuries, they switched parties over that.

              The Midwest at least has some hope.

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                2 months ago

                idk how bad the south is, i’ve never been around that area of the US, just don’t know anybody down there, or really have a reason to go there anyway. But i don’t think it’s irreversible, i’m sure there are problematic areas, as there are in any area, but idk what the whole of it looks like.

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                  2 months ago

                  I think you might be wrong.

                  They switched parties after they’d been with democrats since the founding, because democrats started supporting civil rights.

                  Its just baked so deep for them.