Watching softball not the road!

[Trek420]

fishdr "There are even places within this country that have little/no diversity of race and sexual preference."

OMG, really?

"What I find here in the MS Delta is ...that racism is worse here than any other place I've lived (including MD, SC, and Lousiana). It is not an integrated community, that's for sure."

I duuno, what I hear from folks who lived there, moved here, visit there...by comparison is that racism exists here it's just less out in the open. Something that's said after you leave the room.

Perhaps in the MS Delta it's just more obvious that does not make it any worse, the fact that racism can be subtle here does not make it less so.

"Wierd. As far as a gay community goes - it's not evident. Sad."

We are everywhere Even the MS Delta.

Last October I took a month or so off work (the company pays) and with a group we kinda wandered around the company buildings and ran events to encourage employee charitable donations especially to the Katrina States. I got to know some of my coworkers in other department that I just see but never knew well. Several from the MS Delta.

The affection and passion they have for the place they left was so apparent to me, the hurt they felt for what was home. Is it racist? Yes. Backwards? maybe. Glad to be here? H*** yeah. But it's still home in a way.