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4. Living in rural PA for the past 13 years has been eye opening.

Some of the locals thought the radical “Muslins” were hiding behind every tree and the Black Panthers would come to our one room school house polling place and disrupt the vote. (I work at the polls so I get to hear all these fascinating fears).

They are the most fearful people I have ever met and I have lived in five other states. Fear of the other because there is little diversity here, so those who have lived here their whole lives have no experience with hardly anyone not their cousin or distant relations. Their news comes from FOX. I often think what a sad life it must be to be so uninformed and fearful all the time.