Interracial dating

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Sorry to be slightly off-topic but this brings up an interesting subject that I've wondered about lately. Rednecks.

Ten months ago I moved to Lower Alabama, redneck central. Everywhere I go around here I see a lot of inter-racial couples, mostly white girls (generally good looking) with black guys. Please understand that I have NO problem with that at all, but apparently no one else does either down here. Suprising. You would think being in the deep South it would be uncomfortable for them, but it doesn't seem to be.

Weird part is, when I lived in Los Angeles my ex and I were friends with an inter-racial couple (she was white, he was black) EVERY time we'd go out to dinner, or in one case the four of us went away for the weekend, we'd get these evil stares and dirty looks. And this generally occured in the so-called best parts of L.A.

Along the same lines, I've always worn my hair long, I come from a music business background and it's just my style. A few nights before I flew in here I happened to catch the movie 'Easy Rider' on tv. Got to thinking that 'wow, those rednecks are gonna shoot me because of my hair.' Had it all cut off the next day. Get down here, every fourth guy I see has shoulder-length or longer hair and nobody give's a s**t. All that's cool, maybe times have changed for the better, but it's not what you might think.

Rednecks. A weird breed, go figure...

I think Los Angeles is extremely class-conscious, but not any more or less racist than anywhere else. Then again, maybe L.A. has changed since you moved, or maybe things are different in the part of the city that you lived. About the long hair - I thought those nascar guys were okay with long hair?

[blackiesharley]

I think Los Angeles is extremely class-conscious, but not any more or less racist than anywhere else. Then again, maybe L.A. has changed since you moved, or maybe things are different in the part of the city that you lived. About the long hair - I thought those nascar guys were okay with long hair?

You're probably right. I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, moved to L.A. when I was 19. In Nashville, if I heard someone use the 'N' once a year it was suprising. In L.A., people use it all the time. I'm not L.A. bashing, but I just find the racism there odd especially vs. here in the deep South.

I know that it was an unwritten law that if you're black you don't drive through Beverly Hills at night unless you want to get pulled over by the police.

And yeah, the nascar guys are cool with hair. Everybody is these days.