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		JustExAWS 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should more of us be moving to live near friends? America has always been a low trust society when it came to “others”. Jim Crow was the law when my still living parents were growing up. They literally didn’t trust people to drink from the same water fountain

tekknik 7 months ago [–]

My also still living father born in 1945 in the south didn’t live under this after the 60s or so. So how do you explain the gap for the last 65 years?

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