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defusted t1_jcfpr6h wrote

bucks county peaks out of the closet

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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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bababradford t1_jcfazd3 wrote

Color me surprised.

It’s been this way at least the past 30 years or so if not more.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state

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ell0bo t1_jcff3sn wrote

Lebanon had a KKK march down Cumberland St in 2000. It sure doesn't feel like it's gotten better since.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcfzx3z wrote

Isnt LebCo where a resident had a flaming raccoon tossed onto their driveway because they had a BLM sign out front?

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TapewormNinja t1_jch1xll wrote

Im sorry? Is flaming raccoon code for something? Or are we saying that some ass hat lit a living creature on fire and threw it at a house?

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BurntPoptart t1_jchl9hv wrote

I think the racoon is code for "coon", a derogatory term for black people.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jchxcxs wrote

Yep, an asshat lit a real raccoon on fire and tossed it onto a driveway.

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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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BurntPoptart t1_jchlesl wrote

Confederate alley sounds like the majority of rural PA

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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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Tria821 t1_jcfupxf wrote

Carbon County brought charges against one chapter in 2018. Idiots tried to claim that cross burning was a religious rite instead of an act of terrorism.

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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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OneTrueDweet t1_jcfh3f4 wrote

There’s a whole alt-right publishing line based out of Collegeville. Shit’s crazy.

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atlashoth t1_jcg5gz3 wrote

I dunno I moved to Mississippi when I turned 18 to live with friends for a year and I don't think it helped.

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scotticusphd t1_jcg62q2 wrote

Maybe try a place not ranked near the bottom of everything?

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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_jch4blu wrote

Thank God for Mississippi!

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Thank God for Mississippi

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atlashoth t1_jcg6qvs wrote

So I should of went to Chicago instead for a better world view?

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scotticusphd t1_jcg7aql wrote

There's certainly a lot more to see in Chicago.

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atlashoth t1_jcg99f3 wrote

I guess you've never been to Mississippi then

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scotticusphd t1_jcgabvg wrote

I've driven through. I saw a few too many confederate flags for my comfort, which incidentally is what this thread is about. A crazy amount of poverty, too. It's terribly sad.

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MothWingAngel t1_jci5ui2 wrote

I spent a month in Mississippi. It's embarrassing that that shit hole is part of our country.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcfdjxk wrote

Zach Rehl is from Philly, non? Maybe he should find a backwoods little town to move into after serving his time for sedition. Crazy Pauline Bauer could make him some nasty pizza.

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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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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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STLLC2019 t1_jcg84am wrote

April 12, 1945.

The day the "American Dream" died.

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SeptasLate t1_jcgijak wrote

While I'm sure exceptions exist, it does seem that some environments do better at cultivating/promoting certain outlooks on life.

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Safe_Can_6758 t1_jcg0obn wrote

Small towns are about less traffic, less crime, and alot less general BS.

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scotticusphd t1_jcg5sk3 wrote

Yes. They're for people who don't like people.

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Tidusx145 t1_jcg79vg wrote

Yup nothing gives me that small town feeling like misanthropes getting all up in your business. I'm happy I grew up and live in more of an exurb that's politically moderate.

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Safe_Can_6758 t1_jcg9z6n wrote

Busy bodies in PA. Lol! They certainly have a stronghold in central PA.

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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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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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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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Level-Adventurous t1_jcfsrau wrote

Nobody hates Philly as much as Philadelphians.

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MartianActual t1_jcht0fa wrote

But no one hates the rest of the mouthbreathing state more than Philly so it evens out.

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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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ChrisTheHurricane t1_jcfdpw1 wrote

IIRC, PA has more KKK activity than any other Northern state.

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TheJediJoker t1_jcgqqhw wrote

I must be blind or it's not around where I'm at

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BurntPoptart t1_jchlstb wrote

I grew up in a small rural town, there was so much racism at my school. From the students and from their parents. I'm not too surprised.

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TheJediJoker t1_jchstwv wrote

I'm not saying they're isn't, I just don't see it where I'm at

I'm white, my family is very blended

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BurntPoptart t1_jchzob1 wrote

heard that my man just putting my own experience out there

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TheJediJoker t1_jci1k1h wrote

Don't really get it If everyone stopped seeing color it's make a huge impact

Unfortunately I do still see many youth being racist towards each other, I blame that on family

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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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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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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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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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negativewishingwell t1_jcfdxlw wrote

Franklin county has entered the chat

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Scrungo_Mungo t1_jcfe5lw wrote

Franklin and Adams are the kings of this category… and I’m from Gettysburg haha

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USSBigBooty t1_jcfh3pz wrote

Never seen so much confederate/nazi flags in my life. Incredibly sad.

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Yelloeisok t1_jcfrzg9 wrote

I only see confederate and Trump flags, but haven’t seen nazi stuff where I live - except the adolph haircut (close shaved sides and a pouf of hair slicked on top).

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IamSauerKraut t1_jcg05m1 wrote

Hair style like that Somerset County DA who is on trial for rape? They want to be in charge so they can violate the law with impunity.

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penguinchem13 t1_jcfruv1 wrote

Southern Lancaster county is pretty bad especially closer to the river.

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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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polgara_buttercup t1_jchc20j wrote

Oh I forgot, the guy who named his kids after Hitler and his mistress got his tattoos done in Shippensburg

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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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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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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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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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Wuz314159 t1_jcf9l8m wrote

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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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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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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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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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--Cr1imsoN-- t1_jch51su wrote

I don't need the media to tell me something I already know... It's only a hop, skip and jump through Confederate alley...

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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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Illustrious-Elk-8525 t1_jcgki6a wrote

Anyone can read the evidence and anyone who has been to central PA has seen and experienced it.

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Ecous t1_jcgi54b wrote

The sources are in the article. Try reading past the post title.

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Diarygirl t1_jcgl40m wrote

Just because the media you listen to doesn't think white supremacy is a problem doesn't mean it's not happening.

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chaqalaqalaqa t1_jch9m8b wrote

I remember learning this in high school back in like 2010. This isn’t new at all

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