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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
All of the growth in Tennessee is happening in Nashville. Knoxville and Chattanooga aren't growing (or changing in any pronounced fashion) either and each of them have a far higher percentage of white residents.
If anything, anti-West Virginia sentiment is pretty much the strongest and most acceptable regional and cultural bias in the United States because the name "West Virginia" is synonymous with low-class whites of English, Scottish, and Irish decent. If the state had been a half or majority black or native american place, the national media would run non-stop stories about WV's countless social and environmental problems.
The fact is not only is there a pronounced bias in England against the low-class residents of Northern England, Scotland, and Ireland, that sentiment was absorbed by the descendants of continental Europeans in the United States and continues to be directed toward the descendants of those same people.
It's crazy to listen to BBC radio here in the United States and hear all of the "improper" English spoken by seemingly everyone they interview from the North of England since we get to hear that same improper speech here, many generations after those people took a boat over here.
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Yawn. I don't see stories of Mississippi's Delta Region which is among the poorest in the entire country and mostly black along with much of the south's black belt. Hell, a lot of country don't even know there's a sizable poor rural black lower class.
And how many stories have we heard about the Rust belt now which is the heart of the white lower class and the plight of Trump supporters there.