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The South has issues with a lot of things. Slavery, abortion, same sex marriages are around the top three. I wouldn't be lying to you that going to the South, (I'm surprised that Mississippi isn't there, they can be downright extreme with their beliefs and prejudices.) you're stepping back a hundred years. Wear anything but a skirt to your ankles and you have a priest on your doorstep to give you a lecture about inappropriate misconduct the next day. I kid you not, my mom lived there for a while. She actually did get the lecture, and she doesn't wear anything close to inappropriate for women to wear this day and age. Maybe she wore jeans or shorts.

They're deep in their beliefs of Church, God and Southern tradition. Try to remove any of that and it'll be an ugly fight, especially when it comes to disturbing their lives and their beliefs. They're throwing a fit because they see all three being changed with this law and don't want it to change from the 100 years of deep seated beliefs they have.

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My mom lived in the Mississippi for a while. For the non-Americans, that's as far deep South as you can go. Step back about 100-200 years when you reach the Mason-Dixon line from Pennsylvania/Maryland into Virginia and West Virginia. Until the Civil Rights Act was passed there was still heavy segregation, (Blacks and Whites not allowed in the same public places, blacks had to sit at the end of the bus, not using the same water fountain, the same bathroom... You name it, it was segregated.) I always refer to the Ernest Greene story as a pure example of what it was like for the African American's at the time. Or just googling it.

The South has a bloody history when it comes to African Americans being there. The Ku-Klux-Klan came from the South when the African Americans started getting rights before segregation. Lynching African Americans was a Sunday event, so was going to Ku Klux Klan meetings, finding out that you were even DATING an African American as a White woman was considered the worst in society. My mom told me when she was in Mississippi for a while when pregnant with me she was terrified that when I was born I would be African American because my ancestry has a bit of African American in it because they would burn her house down. The Mississippi is still probably the deepest part of the South that is glued to traditions and unfortunately, racism.

But it's all over the South, including Charleston. Not that it's other places, too... My aunt has an African American kid via adoption she denies is that race. My mom in the farthest North that you can go in the 48 states and still can't have a picture of him in her business because customers flipped out about it when they saw the picture. It just seems to gather in that one spot. It's sad that this stuff happens, from what I heard he wanted to start a race war, have all the African Americans exterminated because: "They're taking over our country."

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The South is a tricky place for most Republicans. ALL those states vote Republican. Google Election results for any four years and I bet you'll see that whole Southern section covered in red since I would say the first election since the Civil Rights Act. Republicans won't bite the biggest hand that feeds them. Granted, there are other states that vote majority Republican, but the South will always vote for them. Meaning that they can't piss them off, meaning if they use the wrong words, they'll lose the majority of the Southern states for any election/support/funding.

They will never call it racism or anything else, partly because there are some parts of the South that believe that it should probably happen more often or don't care. Not all of the South is like this, granted, but history has shown time and time again. (Katrina was a TEXTBOOK example of what happens in the South in problems like this. The majority of people in the Super Dome with no food and water with GANGS with automatics hanging around, and/or drowning were African Americans, stranded on the roof, African Americans, homeless, African Americans. The most AFFECTED by the levies, African Americans. They did their best to make sure their concerns were seen last. It's a sad fact of life: If you're poor, and worse, African American, you'll have a hard time making it in the South. Being fair, my aunt probably feels the same way and she's in California. She considers herself poor when married to a doctor who gets around 300K a year.) That the South don't want the African Americans around and/or have rights still in a vast majority. It's not just the Republicans that are the huge problem, but go to any Southern state and you'll see the same problems.

The government doesn't want to touch it, the Republicans don't want to lose the support and money they're getting from there, and the Democrats don't have enough power. Add traditions and beliefs that have been around since BEFORE the U.S. became a country excluding slavery and you'll get a hint of what it can be like down there. I have seen it in other parts of the country, but not as deep and ingrained as the South has been over it.

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I live in Maine, a few hours from Boston.

I visit often, when I can afford the trip and the time. My godmother was there the day of the explosion half a mile away from the finish line searching for her niece. She was running late and was fifteen minutes late from reaching the finish line when the bomb went off. A co-worker of mine had her brother down the street where the shootout happened that killed the brother, he could hear the gunshots in his apartment. When he called in sick they could hear the gunshots outside also.

Though the Boston Bombing wasn't as big as 9/11, in a lot of ways it's very familiar. I find it closer to it because my godmother was a quarter a mile away from the explosion when it happened. A lot of people say they have a family, friend, or relative or themselves have something that happened in 9/11 that was close to them. At least for my generation and older. This is the first time it hit close, very close.

I really don't know how I feel right now. I still remember when the explosion went off... I came home from doing the laundry minutes later it happened... When the shootout happened, and when the entire city was crippled afterwards. I still remember eating ice cream at the mall in New Hampshire when they announced they caught the guy. The cheer was deafening, people were crying, I didn't understand fully because I didn't hear what happened until I got home. But I just knew it was because he was captured that they cheered.

I'm neutral with the death penalty, I sometimes think the person deserves it, sometimes they don't. Which is a debate for another thread. But this whole thing is something I'll never forget.

It is also the first time this has happened in a very long time, if at all.

I am glad this finally happened, it has frankly been pissing me off seeing cops breaking the laws and getting away with it. I am for cops, like I said before: I have experienced good cops and bad cops. Two cops when a guy who was following girls home from work took interest in me and tried to drag me over the counter where I was working and alone at the time. (He waited for customers to leave before coming in and doing this. I called my mom and asked her to come after work, but he hung around and someone called the police after I started freaking out.) The two cops said it was a "cultural misunderstanding" and he "didn't understand how to get women because he's from China." They were two young male cops, and there were six people in the store who testified that the guy was going to do something to me if he had the chance. They put it down that it was my fault and I just misread the situation, that I was leading him on.

The other time I encountered a cop was during a bullying moment aftermath when I was walking home. I was in a severe state and some people called the cops. They were nice, helpful, and one even encouraged me to press charges. She was also the only person I spoke to that wasn't friends and/or family that told me I had a chance to sue the guy for his actions. She was also the first person, after years of begging organizations, contacting lawyers with no replies, begging my boss and getting nothing, who gave me results. Who gave me hope.

There are all types of cops in the world, hopefully this will teach the bad ones to stop being so liberal with their decisions.

When you said that, I just pictured the guy who did it being there in a room with a computer screen and two doors trying to keep out the animatronics. XD...

I was watching a show tonight a few hours ago called: Alaska State Troopers.

This is Alaska, no offense to anyone who lives there, but it can be a very cowboy state. Very much like up North in my state of Maine, you have a lot of people with guns with nothing to do except drink a lot of the time. My mom is sometimes afraid of going up there because of this very reason. The Fourth of July up there is horrendous, everyone, from 1 to 99 seem to have alcohol in their hands. Under age or not, doesn't matter... And the troopers have to deal with them because most of them camp out in the woods and drink excessively non-stop for days on end. And one clip showed a high powered military grade rifle with scope in one of the troopers hands he just confiscated from some campers, they have to deal with this every year for days on end, and the days last up to 20 hours a day.

These guys are stressed, exhausted (I would say they're going around the clock trying to keep everything clean.), probably scared. (They're running after under age drinkers in a state that practically awards you for having guns.) And the only time I saw a guy get even close to violent was when a under age kid who kept on kicking and punching him every time the trooper tried to catch him. Every time he tackled the guy he just calmly kept him in a head lock and told him to stop fighting. He didn't punch him, he didn't shoot him, he didn't do anything except tell him to calm down, even when the guy broke free several times he never really did anything to him.

That is how a cop is supposed to handle things. I remember recently a State Trooper in California yanked away a phone a woman was filming with, stomped on it until it broke and kicked it back at her.

Looting will happen out of any situation where people can take advantage. It's part of some people's nature. Whether it's to steal, take advantage of a situation, or what I call a "group mentality" where people are watching others do it and do the same. It happens in a lot of situations like this, riots, natural disasters, even situations just where the cops can't be around or are overworked. Some might try to stop them, but there's few when it happens. Look up the LA Riots for a prime example of this happening.

Rodney King (African American) was beaten to near death by six white cops. An all white jury declared each cop innocent and they walked out without even a slap on the wrist. The LA riots began the next day in protest for what the verdict was. The theft was rampant then, too for six days even with the National Guard.

I just really think they should clamp down on these cops. There are good cops out there, I met a few during my problems with a bully boss. But the ones who aren't take advantage of a system that lets them do so. They always go for the poor, the African American, the ones who can't really sue or do anything against these cops. The mayor doesn't say anything most of the time because a hefty part of his paycheck COMES from these cops taking advantage of these people. But if you constantly never do anything, NOTHING, against cops who blatantly abuse their power. (If you don't believe me about this case, watch the video of the guy being dragged, yes, dragged... To the car in this case. He was deadweight with his legs dragging behind him and his neck was angled in an unnatural position. They left him in the car for 45 minutes before even thinking about giving him medical attention. This wouldn't happen with a rich white kid.)

They need to crack down, throw these people in jail, do something other than say. "Well... The guy was sitting in the van wrong, he didn't have his safety belt on." Which is hard with a severed spine. (They are using that as their defense.) Because this will continue until someone actually stands up for the people getting abused due to the corrupt cops.

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I grew up with it and my mom always wondered why I can't stand a being inside a church. Even now I don't tolerate being in one. I spent one class (note: It was a college class for my degree.) Where a guy spent three and a half hours lecturing us on how evil you were and how God would punish you if you didn't do exactly what the bible told you. It was the only class I nearly walked out on, and there were several terrible classes I've endured while in school. It took me two hours to calm down afterwards and I dropped it the next day due to how I felt after being in it.

It's very hard to live in an environment like that unless you are like it yourself. My dad ruined my family's life because of what happened with the church. He poured our life savings in it and never looked back afterwards. If he was given any money from us, it'd end up with the church. I never really got over it myself and hold a special resentment towards religion because of it. I grew up not liking church because I viewed it as dull and my dad quoted the bible every five minutes when I was with him. But after I grew up I really got a deeper resentment when he started going again. (My mom banned him after they married due to him leaving the cult.)

I know a lot of people are good who go to church, as a lot of people who are athiests and/or anti-religion are good. My godmother is a straight-laced Catholic and I've never met someone so liberal and open-minded along with kind. But for me it's left a sour taste in my mouth that I can never get rid of. They might be lied to and have their own issues, but it still wears you down, it still gets to you every single time you see them make an excuse or say something about their beliefs that you know is bullshit. It is torture, but for me it's torture for the people who have to deal with them every day who don't have the same beliefs also.

That's just my two cents...

I grew up in an extremist household. Hell, I still have an extremist family. (Thankfully my mom isn't. Or I'd probably not make it in my household.) My aunt and dad both are extremist, right wing, Tea Party, ex-cultists who go to "Super Mall Churches" (yes, there are ones.) And blame everything including the worst drought in five hundred years on Obama. (I **** you not.) Who believe if you're not a Christian no matter what you do in life you're going straight to hell. They believe if you ASSOCIATE with someone who isn't Christian you're going to hell. My grandmother's caretaker is a Catholic who's a huge churchgoer and my aunt tried to get her fired because she was a Catholic.

Oh yeah, and my dad doesn't believe in trimming anything, at all... Period. Because it's "Gods creatures". Including a rosebush wrapped so tightly around the wires going inside our house three times a day I'm going and restarting my Internet because it's screwing up with our reception, thankfully not our power, yet.

I can see why a lot of people look inside from outside of our country and wonder what the **** is going on with it. I wonder the same thing a lot of the time myself. Especially with my own family, but it's different countries. I would like to see it change, but I strongly doubt it will happen soon. Not with as much power as the church has in the U.S. and the beliefs of a lot of people who help these people get to power.

You should watch Michael Moore sometime, you'd probably like him. He's a controversial documentarian in the U.S. who after 9/11 asked random senators to sign a draft for the kids to join the army. All of them practically fled as soon as they same him.

I technically can't join the military due to several reasons. (One is my flat feet and terror of loud noises.) But I actually am strongly against wars as are a lot of people in the U.S. I think the only war I have supported since I was born was maybe right after 9/11. There are people for wars, sadly... The country has reached the point in my view where the people will just mostly vote for what party they're in. (Granted, it's changing a bit, but it's become a bit extremist. If you really want fun, google the Tea Party. And yes, I'm sure there's left-wing extremists around, too... But the Tea Party is something else in my opinion. But I digress.)

It's a part of the U.S. as much as everything else has become. Fun fact: The U.S. stayed in isolation for most of it's life until 1917, then went back into it until 1941 when Pearl Harbor happened. Now we seem the complete opposite.

I have an aunt who lives there... She's not going to be thrilled with the news. But it's understandable why, especially since CA is notorious for wildfires in the summer.

The pledge of allegiance in the U.S. is a touchy subject. Whether it's religion: (I think it's Jahova's Witnesses that can't make an oath to someone other than God. The court finally allowed them to not say it due to religious beliefs.) Nationalism... A ton of things.

I recently watched a video where a ex-cop talked about the Lucifer effect and a Stanford study. (The one where a guy selected several students to run a simulated prison, being randomly selected as guards/prisoners. It was supposed to last two weeks, at the most it lasted five days.) But he talked about how the U.S. seems to always need an enemy, someone to fight against during war times. During WWII, Germany and Japan, cold war: Russia and communism, 1990 to present: Middle East and terrorism. And people either grow up in that mindset that these people are "evil" or they watch the news and the propaganda and make wrong conclusions about a few people while the rest might be okay. It's sadly something that is happening right now in the U.S. with Arab countries, is it wrong? Yes, will it change? Most likely not.

But it's sad it does happen.