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peppertree

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13. I hear you
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:39 PM
Dec 4

I couldn't help but notice the Mississippi plates on the first car the brothers tracked.

Having grown up there, I can definitely attest to the devout fascism professed by at least half the white voters there.

Somewhat suppressed in the post-Civil Rights era, this sentiment really took off again after Old Man Bush (who despised Southerners) was defeated by Clinton (who is one - but which in their eyes made him a traitor).

It was a real shock to them - and they were sure it was part of some "Jew conspiracy."

There isn't much Cheeto and his regime are doing, that doesn't recall at least one conversation in my teens with a Mi'ssippi right-winger.

Right down to the McCarthy and Hitler apologia - and of course a real bloodlust, when it came to "lib'ruls" and "faw'ners."

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