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My wife grew up in Appalachia and I grew up on the edge of Appalachia. For both of us, our communities were over 90% white. There were plenty of attacks on college bound students, lots of families with bad relations with police, etc. My wife had an aunt that would warn her not to get above her raisin'.
Where you have communities that feel and maybe are isolated and homogonous, you end up with cultural aspects that discourage leaving that community or fraternizing with other communities.
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