General Discussion

I've been to every continental state west of the Mississippi, save for Washington and Oregon, and a good deal of the southern ones. Only the accents and geography are different, really.

Otherwise, you'll find the same idiotic religious fervour. Same vast stretches of nothing with the occasional backwards small town. Same stupid. Same bigotries. Same loudness (why are so many stupid Americans so very *loud* about it?).

Oh---and the same homogeneity of lots of white skin in the podunk areas. Sure, states like Alabama and Mississippi have a high percentage of black people, but if you're driving along I-55 or I-65 through the yokel parts of those states, you'll hardly ever see someone brown. You usually have to get off the road and then head well into the boonies for that. Not always, but far more often than one would think. And I've been to the Greenwood, MS. Even went through Money, where Emmett Till got in trouble with those racist traitor thugs.

Guess how many black people I saw the week I was there?

ZERO. It's like they didn't dare go anywhere near where more than a few white people would be. But I most certainly ran into a bunch of stupid, bigoted, unpleasant and too loud white people, everywhere I went in the Delta.

Skull Valley, UT (where my then-husband, infant son and I were nearly murdered by some thugs--not a joke). Same as Penwell, TX (another place where Mum and I were nearly killed when some redneck was too stupid to know which side of the road he belonged on). Same as Kimball, SD. Same as Blencoe, IA. Same as Lusk, WY. Same as--

Well, you get the idea.