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Originally Posted by John Doe
I don't travel to Calif. too much but have some friends that live in Hermosa that I see once or twice a year and my BIL has a family home in San Diego that I have only been to twice in 5 years. Can't say the same for SD, but my observations of the beach set in Manhattan/Redondo/Santa Barbara are some of the most right wing, racist mofos I have encountered, including Southerners. Won't rent their apartments to blacks, hispanics, ect......
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I'll give you that point. There are a large number of very right-wing conservative pockets in So. Cal., and if you scratch hard enough, it's not too hard to find racists.
I come from a very long line of distinguished racists on my father's side of the family. My father's parents, his four sisters, and their kids (my cousins) were and are openly racist and prejudiced towards blacks. They use the "n" word openly in their houses, and tell really bad jokes to the expense of blacks. They are frankly quite hard to be around when they get nasty.
My grandmother, upon hearing that I was going to marry a Japanese girl, told me that she wasn't sure that the family would accept her.
I told her immediately that if she or anyone else in the family didn't accept her warmly or if they ever even once made her feel uncomfortable, then that would be the last time any of them would ever see me, my wife, or our kids.
It worked.