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kleinbl00  ·  3077 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tired Of Promises, A Struggling Small Town Wants Problems Solved

'cuz there's no minorities in the west, right? Certainly no Native Americans or Hispanics.

    Moving is also far easier said than done. For some, it means having to give up on a place and family that is all you know and all that values you. In Gary, the conflict between wanting and needing to stay, and understanding you might have to leave, is especially strong.

There's the difference- nobody has ever bothered to value the West. It's apparently too far for the overwrought narrators of the Eastern Seaboard to travel.