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Posted by Bill Drew on October 28, 2004 at 07:09:51 from (4.159.107.84):
In Reply to: A Comparison posted by Allan in NE on October 28, 2004 at 05:36:51:
Pretty much the same in every small town, though the intensity does vary. My folks moved to a farm north of Duluth when I was 5 years old. They weren't really accepted untill my younger sister graduated from high school and married one of the locals. There wasn't the kind of outright nastyness you ran into though. We now live in Western Wisconsin with a different problem. Over the past 30 years it has changed so there are many more horses than holsteins now. The horse crowd wants to force everyone to get rid of the "junk piles" in their front yard. The hippies (remnants of the `60s & `70s communes) have much more in common with the hillbillies than either has with the horse set.
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