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True story -- wife is from a small town in Alabama. Back in 2019, a few months after Notre Dame cathedral burned, there was a death in her family. We went down for a week -- funeral, visit friends, etc.

We visited a couple, she had grown up with the two of them. Both college grads. He served a few terms in the Alabama state legislature.

Wife told them our daughter was in France and had visited the ruins of Notre Dame. THEY DID NOT KNOW NOTRE DAME HAD BURNED. HAD NO IDEA. IN FACT, AT FIRST THEY THOUGHT THE FIRE WAS AT NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY. What was worse, after she told them, they showed no interest in the fire and no interest in what our daughter was doing in France. They quickly took the conversation back to their problems with their rose garden and some goings-on at their church.

After we left, my wife was speechless at, as she put it, "How did they get so stupid??? No wonder people make fun of us A;abama natives!!"