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Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by mikestew on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:00PM (#18685232)
Without really needing to know, I'm guessing either Indiana (my home state) or North Carolina (lived there three years). I say that only because we'd never go back to NC because of differences in opinion and politics, and never, ever go back to IN because it appears to have gone even more (ahem) divergent from my opinions since we moved out twenty years ago. The things I heard come out of the mouths of clients when I had a consultancy in IN would send a native West Coaster to the fainting couch.

So, yeah, I used to live there and I'll never go back, let alone attract anyone who tans a little too well.

Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by jacob019 on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:24PM (#18686150)
Most hoosiers are good people. Indianapolis is blue. We don't have these draconian rules.
Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by mikestew on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:16PM (#18686385)
Twenty years ago, right before we moved out, Marion County (i. e., Indianapolis) prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith decide multiple black young men in a car was probable cause for a stop. It stands out in my mind because I remember thinking, “boy, am I glad to be getting the hell out of here.” Perhaps my information is a bit outdated, but it was within the lifetime of most reading this.

I lived in that state for 35 years. You’ll be hard-pressed to convince me that Elwood (as one example) welcomes their new dark-skinned neighbors (should they dare move there) with open arms in less than a generation since I last did business there. Which is one of many reasons I have no desire to bring my high-tech skills back home.

Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy by wahern on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:24AM (#18687206)

  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
People in rural and conservative communities aren't bad people. And IME people in urban and liberal communities aren't even any less racist. The biggest difference is that those with power in urban and liberal communities (i.e. middle-class and whites) are more likely to acquiesce when confronted with claims of prejudice or inequality.

This propensity to acquiesce is considered radical by conservative communities, who view themselves as being principled.