re: #210 HappyWarrior

That sounds like my mom’s cousins who and some of my dad’s cousins too. Ironically, my grandmother’s sister can’t stand Trump but sadly both her kids and even her grandkids like him. And yeah the abortion issue. The abortion issue is why she voted for Bush in 2004 over Kerry. IT is sad. I’m a product of Western Pa’s ethnic diversity. I now live in even more diverse Northern Va. As the family’s genealogist, it hurts me so much to see people who are learning a little from me about what our family went through engaging in the same nativism that was directed at our family.

Yea, my plan on engagement if the issue arises the next time I see some of these people is pointing that the nativist rhetoric is the same as a hundred years ago when the KKK was active in the western PA region and doing cross burnings to intimidate the immigrant (and Catholic) miners. I don’t hear any outright anti-atheist sentiments from them since they know I am agnostic/atheist in outlook. And, if anything, I can challenge them regarding the administration’s behavior on the border and elsewhere not being very charitable or Christian in nature - which chafes some of them in being reminded about from folk such as myself.