Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Sorry, honest please speak English more clearly. I'm still trying to decipher your idiomatic expression (jargon). Do you mean you are in a working class area or what??

(from a person who is non-white, grew up poor but dislikes terminology like "ghetto", "inner city". Devalues the cultural richness and hard work of certain lifestyles & socio-economic areas)
What Trek is saying is that she lives in a reputedly highly liberal area of a highly liberal (blue = majority votes democratic in elections) state, yet people still face discrimination based solely on the color of their skin. It shows that many people, while outwardly claiming liberalism and tolerance, don't necessarily practice what they preach.