“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.
“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.
“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”
“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”
“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.
The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.
Agreed. I grew up in an extremely rural area and if someone moved there from “the city” (any city, really) they were sus. Even being one county over was viewed with a raised eyebrow.
But even if someone was born and raised there, visited a large city with their family, and then later said something positive about that city, they were given serious side-eye. Though I moved there at a very young age, I was not born and raised there and didn’t have extended family in the area. Therefore, myself and my family, because we tended to travel more, and were not “from there”, were definitely viewed with suspicion by the locals. Another strike against me - I was definitely bound for college and my parents valued reading, learning and education. All very out-groupy things with a lot of the locals.