Maybe he was some redneck bumpkin who has lived under a rock his whole life and just recently crawled out?
I recall the years I spent growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains (from age 10, roughly, until graduation) and the most vehement racists were the ones who never set foot out of this rural community and had rarely seen anyone who wasn't also a rural redneck of the same sort.
Some of these kids had never had an actual conversation with somebody who wasn't white, for example. Most of their ideas about other races/cultures was straight off the television or whatever putrid bile they heard from their grandpappy.
Suffice it to say, the growing Hispanic population in the area, and the first couple black families to move into the count, sent them into absolute fits. It would have been hilarious, if the sheer level of their pure ignorance wasn't so serious.
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I recall the years I spent growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains (from age 10, roughly, until graduation) and the most vehement racists were the ones who never set foot out of this rural community and had rarely seen anyone who wasn't also a rural redneck of the same sort.
Some of these kids had never had an actual conversation with somebody who wasn't white, for example. Most of their ideas about other races/cultures was straight off the television or whatever putrid bile they heard from their grandpappy.
Suffice it to say, the growing Hispanic population in the area, and the first couple black families to move into the count, sent them into absolute fits. It would have been hilarious, if the sheer level of their pure ignorance wasn't so serious.