Comment by Kierik on 26/11/2023 at 18:29 UTC

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New England in general has real issues with racism and it surfaces occasionally. What keeps it from being more common is very likely opportunity to express that racism.

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Comment by big_fartz at 26/11/2023 at 18:53 UTC

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There's also a lot of passive racism even in folks that consider themselves really blue. A whole lot of nimbyism is also somewhat racist.

Comment by [deleted] at 26/11/2023 at 19:58 UTC

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I live in New England and there are large swaths of VT, NH, MA, ME, and Upstate/Western NY which are solid MAGA country. The ignorance is tight.

Comment by [deleted] at 26/11/2023 at 18:52 UTC

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This is actually completely wrong.

Racism in New England is alot more nuanced because it doesn't fit the national idea of oppression.

Ask the Catholics, Italians, Irish, Germans, and just about any family with an Eastern European heritage. The Brits started that oppression with the original Sundown Towns and it continued well past the revolution when they propped up the first police departments in MA during 1800s. The KKK came in the 1900s and said join us, the region collectively said "get fucked".

The region has always shown up because there is an actual history of oppression unlike the whiny bitch that wrote the Cornerstone Speech.