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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Those are Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic, been-to-university, rational moderates. Bigotry was frowned upon because it's simply dumb. One would be looked upon as a lowlife to engage in racist talk, in public or in private. That was way the poor Archie Bunker sorts with grudges and bad schooling talked to one another in the shitty bars. It'd be a scandal to have a family member disown a child for marrying, or being gay. He'd be reactively disowned.
Further away from the cities you'll find more openly bigoted sorts. So maybe my point doesn't hold for the more educated and affluent GOP in other parts of the nation. But I really and truly doubt, and I say this coming from a school where 70% of my friends seem to come from somewhere in the Greenwich corridor, that there are many people like your uncle still out there.
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My uncle and his two brothers are the Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic, been-to-university types you describe. All three went to a Catholic university on the Main Line. My other uncle also went to law school there, whereas my father went to business school at a prominent Massachusetts university mostly associated around here with Hank. Both of my uncles are/were hardened bigots and, as I mentioned, my uncle who disowned his daughter was not ostracized or shamed in his professional or personal circles, either when he was in the Greenwich corridor or now (he is in a different Mid-Atlantic state). My father, while far from being proponent of progressive politics, thankfully never exhibited any overt racism that I was aware of, but nor did he challenge his brothers on their racism. I understand that these facts do not fit into your narrative of the world, so you will dismiss them as being outliers. I disagree.
