re: Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%

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After spending time up there this last fall, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, etc. welcome diversity and immigration only because they haven't had it yet.

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I always enjoyed these types of discussions while in Utah once they found out I was from Alabama.

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There's so much truth in that stance, I think many simply overlook it.

A couple of decades ago I lived in Alex/Pville. I met and became friends with a couple who had just moved down from Canada, they were in an apartment but were looking for a house and had found a decent-sized one in their price range. When they told me where it was (Lower Third) I told them they should pass and then explained why.

They were aghast at what they thought was my racism and it pretty much soured them on our friendship for a while. A year later the husband took me aside at a group function and apologized for their reactions. They had had no frame of reference for how the street-thug culture operates so anything like I tried to describe to them was simply the ramblings of some white, Southern racist. They quickly learned otherwise.