Reply #24: These people are scared shitless

[MountainLaurel]

Their nice, white Christian homogenous world is changing rapidly thanks to federal facilities that have been sited there, efforts to bring in high-tech businesses, local universities. Minorities have always been present in Harrison County, but the old power structures remained intact. Now that there's a possibility of that changing, these folks are clinging tightly to their control of political and educational systems to emphasize the others' status as outsiders, and decrying anyone who opposes them as anti-Christian and anti-American.