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To be fair, it's a huge fucking difference being from a small town and moving to a small town. You go from being almost family with everyone you meet to being an outsider to 95% of people.
That could be, hadn't considered it. I've thought about her for a long time though.
The two towns are very interconnected although now that you say that, little pockets or families tended to stay in one place or another. The place she moved from is a dead lumber mill town that once threw a parade because a Chili's opened up. She moved to a white flight town made up of former residents of the nearby larger (and more black) city.
She also moved to the white flight town right as the housing market collapsed in 2008/09, where America was starting to build its current, even more predatory real estate system. She could have been talking about that, she could have been talking about the lack of churches in town, or the fact there are traffic lights.
It hurts my brain to think about how to handle these people after the revolution 😕