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TexasTowelie

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2. You think you have it rough?

Reply to Maeve (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 09:58 AM

Apr 2016

Try being a single 50-year-old white guy in a small Texas town like me. Everyone automatically assumes that I'm a Republican and that using the "n-word" is just dandy as long as long as there are no blacks around. I was very uncomfortable to hear that word while talking to a retired professor in my apartment complex who I thought was somewhat liberal.

Don't even get me started about the political leaders from my state.

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Sometimes being an Ohioan is really embarrassing Maeve Apr 2016 #1

You think you have it rough? TexasTowelie Apr 2016 #2

I feel for you--lived in OKC for several years in the '80's Maeve Apr 2016 #3

I appreciate your pulling these state-related stories together for posting, TexasTowelie. No Vested Interest Apr 2016 #4

Thank you and I'm glad to do so. TexasTowelie Apr 2016 #5