I grew up in the Midwest as a person of color. I specifically refuse to go back and am consider a $1.5MM home purchase only because of the bigotry and prejudice that I faced and my parents faced. My friends at school couldn’t come over because their parents weren’t comfortable with it.

It is a problem, and it’s not that most rural dwellers are bigots but enough people are, and they’re the loudest in the room.

Asking a person of color, lgbt, Muslim, etcz to live in rural white america is often a non starter.

Of course not all of them are, and there's plenty of bigots in urban and suburban areas, but you start looking at voting patterns and it's hard not to conclude that the bigot density is a lot higher.

> It is out there.

It is in the place you grew up. Projecting negative stereotypes onto people because they share a broad group with other people you had negative experiences with is stereotyping.

> You just don't care.

Less of this, please.