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Why do people dislike California?
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I haven't been to California, but I can tell you I'd rather pee my pants than stop for a bathroom break in the rural southern US. I can't think California would be that way.
I'm a brown guy with long hair and a beard and I'd do the same. When I do my quarterly drive on I-10 through Alabama and Mississippi I make sure to refuel and take a bathroom break in Pensacola Florida or the eastern-most rest area in Louisiana to avoid stopping in those states.
Sounds like there needs to be a new edition of The Green Book
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book
Fucking hell is that what the movie was about? The ads made it look like a Driving Miss Daisy type of film
To be fair I wasn't really interested in films at that time
I stayed one night in rural Tennessee and honestly didn't sleep a wink. You can smell the crosses burning.
There are so many more non-whites in the South than you realize, people that live happy lives without bother. Lots of those gas stations you passed probably didn't have one single white person in them lol I can't count how many times I've seen this in rural/suburban areas.
And if there are white people there, they're likely not what you imagine them to be. It's wild how such a prejudice usually comes from the people that claim to be so open and accepting.
In other words, nobody cares that you're brown. Just get some gas, grab a snickers, piss, and move on. This isn't the 1940s.