West coast small towns are like something out of Central Casting.
Even the homeless groups and young hoodlums are completely diverse and look like they were hired by Netflix for portraying fair representation. It’s hilarious to see after living in places where racial and gender lines were set in some kind of ancient stone and people haaaated each other’s groups or identities.
It actually makes me feel really hopeful for the future going into a walmart out west and seeing every other couple is interracial or there are gay or lesbian couples openly holding hands in public. The attitudes and cartoonish hatred you see on Trump-fixated media seems like fiction from another world. (At least until the ICE gas grenades start landing in the home depot parking lot.)
As a product of a rural town in SoCal, I can assure you there are VERY white, VERY racist places all over the west coast. I regularly had to deal with neonazis and white trash racists growing up. Still full of toxic bigots, I hate going out in public there. I wish I lived anywhere like what you described but even the big city near me is pretty rich, white, and conservative.
West coast small towns are like something out of Central Casting.
Even the homeless groups and young hoodlums are completely diverse and look like they were hired by Netflix for portraying fair representation. It’s hilarious to see after living in places where racial and gender lines were set in some kind of ancient stone and people haaaated each other’s groups or identities.
It actually makes me feel really hopeful for the future going into a walmart out west and seeing every other couple is interracial or there are gay or lesbian couples openly holding hands in public. The attitudes and cartoonish hatred you see on Trump-fixated media seems like fiction from another world. (At least until the ICE gas grenades start landing in the home depot parking lot.)
As a product of a rural town in SoCal, I can assure you there are VERY white, VERY racist places all over the west coast. I regularly had to deal with neonazis and white trash racists growing up. Still full of toxic bigots, I hate going out in public there. I wish I lived anywhere like what you described but even the big city near me is pretty rich, white, and conservative.