A most excellent post by diary owner, “droogie6655321“, of Daily Kos. A snippet:

People are just people. As Jim Cacy said in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” there’s some things that folks do that’s good, and there’s some things they do that ain’t so good. But that’s all a man has a right to say.

They’re not so different from you. They are your brothers and your sisters. And were you born where they were born, don’t pretend that you’d be so very different either.

So please don’t forget about your brothers and sisters in areas of the country that have been written off time and again by so-called “progressives.” You may think yourself mighty open-minded, but when you call an entire city, or a whole state, or even a region of the country “racist,” or “hopeless,” or “a lost cause,” you are only revealing your own prejudices.

Go read the full post. Well worth your time!