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It's weird and ironic, but with the exception of the things you've said about wealth/privilege/class, you come across kinda like the people living in rural Pennsylvania ("I'm not racist, but these minorities are moving in. They're bringing the crime from the city and lowering our property values." "I'm not racist. I have a couple neighbors who are black and they're fine. It's just that they've got friends coming here the city to hang out, and these friends make a lot of noise and cause trouble.")
Rural PA has some of the largest concentrations of KKK in the country. Many of these small rural towns in PA have been all white for many, many generations. A lot of the growing membership is due to limited economic opportunities in the rural areas and minorities are starting to move in. The minorities are seen as taking away these already limited number of jobs. And I think there's a lot of fear and resentment for this, as well as a want for a scapegoat for the economic problems of the area.
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