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>Some of the most backward, racist, and mean spirited people I've ever met in 46 years of life..... were some folks in Pippa Passes KY when I took a youth group on a mission trip there.

No argument here. My ex-brother-in-law is a major league racist. And in the redneck area of town where I grew up, still a problem. Some of the older people flat out do not like blacks, period. If they are in a whites-only crowd, and the subject comes up, they'll tell ya, substituting the word nigger for blacks.