Someone sent me the video of Bernie's hour-long town hall in Wisconsin

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63. Where I grew up I knew none

I didn't encounter any bigots until I moved to more urban areas.

When you live in small rural areas everyone knows each other. I have lived in smaller towns in the south where I HAVE seen some racism. Some of the racism I've seen has worked both ways as well, more in the form of too quickly assuming that someone was racist when they weren't. I'm speaking strictly where interpersonal interactions are concerned. There most definitely IS more institutional racism, but that is a completely different topic.

The primary industry in the area I grew up where manufacturing is concerned would be paper and pulp, food packaging. Pretty sure the factories closed because it was cheaper to make in other countries. There would literally be 100 people or more applying for a part time job flipping burgers at McDonalds, that's in no way an exaggeration.

My family (immediate and extended) did not teach members to even look at race or things to divide. We were too busy working to help get by, be it hunting, harvesting, taking care of the garden, chickens, pigs, cows, fishing, etc. No one had time to worry about what other people were busy doing.

It wasn't until I ventured out into more heavily populated areas where I really met minorities or members of different groups. That made he have more concern about those groups, because I actually knew people from those groups. These rural people so many here are attacking brutally are more likely to just be detached from understanding why Trump is so upsetting just because they don't know anyone being impacted personally. Calling people like that racists and bigots is just wrong...as in factually wrong and not the right thing to do.