When people ask us how we like it here we generally say something like "It's great. Everyone is really friendly and we like that. Of course, we're a straight, married white couple so that makes things easy."
The benefit of being white in Mississippi cannot be underestimated. This is a place where the Klan comes out to protest at football games. While that incident had the sort of happy ending where more people turned out to protest against the klan than turned out to support them, the fact that the klan is alive and well down here is still pretty disturbing.
Here's another example of why we respond that way. (Thanks to Sarah's colleague for the great post--we recommend reading the oped he links to).
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