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StClone

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9. What could I call it?

Reply to Effete Snob (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 21, 2022, 02:05 PM

Dec 2022

I visited my Iowa family over Thanksgiving and likely won't be back in my home state again for years. I didn't talk politics but all I heard was how those "people at the border were coming!" and "Biden has opened the border!"

Racism? These views seemed to definitely affect the voting. Though I didn't hear it in this visit they often have slanded views of "athletes," "inner city people" and "welfare." To me all code words for blacks and other minoroties.

Apparently, the R candidates themselves played this fear.

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