Don’t condescend to red state neighbors

In the course of a week, I found myself defending my political views to a close relative, and then defending his politics to a potential date on Hinge. I recently shared an Instagram post that stated that all the national articles about states redrawing voting maps should include the history of slavery in the state […]
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