conuly

Aha, that is a point - the Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipinos and Indonesians here have more problems each other than they have with non-Asians. The Makah and Quileut were traditional enemies until the Europeans showed up to consider all of them 'Injuns', and their inter-tribal solidarity only stretches so far, even today. Most of our Hispanic people are Mexican, and most of our black people are from the urban Midwest, so there doesn't seem to be a lot of conflict within those categories.

My parents' hometown, Bennington NE, is so tiny I can't find it - that whole area of Nebraska is just tiny clusters of blue surrounded by a lot of empty white. My mother never saw a non-white person till she went away to college in exotic Omaha.