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"When I told one I was from Georgia, a state before Washington was even a territory, I was accused of being a racist. Ah, the "tolerance.""
My Navy days in New England were similar. When asked where I was from, I would say, "Mississippi". The next question was almost always, "Are you a racist"?, flat out. Then there was the ever-common, "But you are so well spoken". As if I couldn't be from Mississippi because I spoke comprehensible English.