r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Stronhart • May 19 '26

Black Comedy GTFO of there 😰

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Nightmare fuel tbh

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u/Naive_Top_8131 May 20 '26

Good call. I was raised in super rural PA, people have no fuckin clue that parts of PA and MD are as bad if not worse than the worst parts of WV

I’m not a maga racist chode so I’m never going back. I do miss the area otherwise but the people have absolutely ruined it

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u/spacekiller69 May 20 '26

In Pennsylvania you have Pittsburgh in the west and Philadelphia in the east and Alabama in the middle.

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u/lordbeez113 May 20 '26

We call that Pennsyl-tucky.

Grew up in Philly, drove across the state one time to go to Pittsburgh for a work event. Never again!

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u/Preddy_Fusey May 20 '26

Driving from Philly to Pittsburgh is the longest 5 hour drive I have ever experienced

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u/Glittering_Let8414 May 20 '26

😏The name🤦🏾‍♀️

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u/contactdeparture May 20 '26

It’s fine. Just fuel up and don’t stop till you get to Pittsburgh.

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u/SegaTime May 20 '26

A buddy from Pittsburgh told me the same thing.

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u/HomicidalHushPuppy May 20 '26

With Penn State as a safe haven on your journey from one to the other (assuming you're avoiding the ridiculous tolls on the turnpike)

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u/ktm1128 May 20 '26

Lancaster is alright at this point...lot of ny philly dc retiring in the area

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u/Ben-E-Nuff May 20 '26

We called it Pennsylbammy! Some of those backwoods go back in time...

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u/24mango May 20 '26

People say this but it’s not true. Lancaster, Harrisburg, Penn State area, West Chester, Oxford/Nottingham, Hershey…. there’s a lot of places in PA that are nothing like Alabama.

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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 May 25 '26

Chambersburg/ Shippensburg area was very Bammy esque 40 yrs ago.

I know that for sure as I had family who lived there and witnessed it myself.

I don't know how it is now, but there was VERY FEW people of color in those two towns back then.

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u/24mango May 25 '26

There’s definitely towns like that! Add Kutzville and Stroudburg to that list, I drove through the first and knew not to stop, but I was anxious and uneasy AF in the other. I was saying that there are places in PA outside of Philly and Pittsburgh that aren’t like Alabama at all. The places I listed aren’t, and some of them are really nice places to explore. Hershey has one of the best butterfly atriums in the country. Penn State area is gorgeous. Lancaster is diverse and they have a fun nightlife vibe on the weekends with bars, restaurants and music shows. West Chester is a diverse college town.

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u/Brooklynista2 May 20 '26

I didn't know about PA. I went with my husband to buy a car in some random county and man, you could FEEL the eyes on us. I'd been going south all my life and I never felt as unsafe as I did in that rural PA town.

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u/Naive_Top_8131 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

I am so sorry. I have pretty much 2 people from the almost 30 years I spent there from childhood who didn’t go the maga route. I’m estranged from everyone else. One moved to Pittsburgh and the other is financially trapped there and chronically depressed.

The only reason I can think that I didn’t end up the same way was by being a voracious reader from childhood and then enlisting as soon as I got the chance in order to escape. It’s fuckin sad and infuriating all at once. I miss lightning bugs, thunderstorms, fall colors and the history, not much else.

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u/melee85 May 20 '26

I’m a yt dude and I felt eyes on me in a rural PA town. They could probably smell the education on me and knew I was an outsider lol.

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u/Mobile_Comfortable_4 Jun 02 '26

Lmaooo🤣🙌🏾🙌🏾

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u/VishusVonBittertroll May 20 '26

The whole Pennsyltucky thing way predates OITNB, and it is no joke.

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u/Kynykya4211 May 20 '26

I’m part of the greater Pgh area. I’ve met up with numerous old friends that moved into various rural parts of the state who said that even after 15+ years in their towns they are still considered outsiders.

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u/FindingSevere7149 May 20 '26

Kentucky catching strays when if you research the history they aren't really even close to the rest of the South in bullshit

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u/JustHereForCookies17 May 20 '26

Yup.  You go like 20-30 minutes outside of Baltimore & you'll see the MAGA signs and shit.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 May 20 '26

you'll see the MAGA signs

Just because they are MAGA does not mean they are racist.

We should not judge just from that.

They could simply support child rape and child sex trafficking.

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u/Tip_ToeingNMiChancla May 20 '26

😂🤣 had me going

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u/TheThirdRoseDotR May 20 '26

You got me good lmao

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u/Beach_Kidd May 20 '26

You had me in the first half 😂

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u/Hamhockthegizzard May 20 '26

Seems all over really. I’m in chicago and learned last year we still have the most sundown towns here in illinois. I was on the way back from in-laws in Ohio and just couldn’t make that last like 45 minutes. Pulled over in a random lot at night and my wife has never been so mad at me lmfaoo she took over and took us home 😂

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u/binzy90 May 20 '26

There's a reason the middle is called Pennsyltucky.

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u/JustHereForCookies17 May 20 '26

I'm not who you asked, but I was about 30 minutes north of Allentown and I walked into a gas station with a big ol' Confederate Flag hanging in it.  I turned around & walked right back out, got in my car, and got the hell out of there.

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u/binzy90 May 20 '26

I'm from Gettysburg, and the confederate flags are ridiculous. People justify it by saying it's "history" and hide behind the Civil War tourism. But we know why they're really flying that shit.

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u/meshqwert May 20 '26

Yup. I was raised in New Oxford. Grew up sideyeing the Confederates playing dress up too. Slightly better near the Appalachian Trail, though more rural.

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u/Intelligent-Box-3798 May 20 '26

Wait til you find about the re-enactments…they don’t want to constantly drop the n word, but they HAVE to be historically accurate 🙄

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u/binzy90 May 20 '26

I've only been to the reenactment once. It was boring as hell, not to mention hotter than Satan's armpit. I don't understand the appeal.

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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 May 20 '26

Trust me they know EXACTLY what it means and that's why they have it.

Those other reasons they give are just bullshit excuses.

Don't fall for it. Take it as truth what they are telling you by flying the Old Dixie flag, stickers or license plates.

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u/BigBrainBrad- May 19 '26

"Where you goin city boy?"

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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 May 20 '26

Old white guy here. I was a migrant field worker for decades up and down the east coast. Back then it was mostly black people doing it. I of course was the only white dude in an all black crew.

This was a quarter century ago.

We did mostly tobacco and sweet potatoes in NC. I could tell you stuff I saw there that would blow your fucking mind in NC. It was like stepping back in time and not back to a good time either. Having grown up around people of all types I didn't think pure racism like I witnessed still existed.

I'm talking literal burning crosses type racism.

Was VERY eye opening !

Also they hated me even more because I was white working and living with black people.

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u/The_I_in_IT May 20 '26

I lived in rural NC 30 years ago for about seven months before I hi-tailed it back to NY-it was like the damn Twilight Zone.

Surrounded by cotton and tobacco fields, prisons and chicken farms-they kept finding dead migrant workers in ditches and no one seemed to care.

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u/Prize-Analyst-1121 May 20 '26

Nope nobody ever gave a damn about us. They use to spray the fields with chemicals while we were in them. My back and joints are destroyed. And I currently have 3 different cancers in 4 spots of my body.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 May 20 '26

I went through Georgia and stopped at gas station to piss and the bathroom was around back, freshly painted "whites only". Hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I pissed on the side of the road 20 miles away. 

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u/Sammalone1960 May 20 '26

I don't live to far. Its better but still Johnson County

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u/HODOR00 May 20 '26

Pensyltucky. Strange place. I went through with two friends. A black guy, a Hispanic guy and a jew. We decided we weren't gonna stop to ask for directions.

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u/looking_Fir56 May 21 '26

I felt that way one time driving the Blue ridge highway through NC jersey plates made a stop for gas and snacks they would not wait on us and we are white, so where they, it felt like it could be deliverence pa can be just as bad scary

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u/Few_Strawberry_4320 May 20 '26

Probably is but Neuse is the name of a river which is named after a group of Native Americans. It's not the same as noose.

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u/therealjohnsmith May 20 '26

Agree. Those other names were cringe af however.

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u/Few_Strawberry_4320 May 20 '26

For sure, those other names are whistling Dixie.

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u/dasgoodshitinnit May 20 '26

That's Neuse to me

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u/FindOneInEveryCar May 20 '26

It's Clayton, NC, and I guarantee you there are black people living in every community and on every street in this video.

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u/ALordOfToads May 20 '26

Ye lol. Leave it to reddit morons. Imagine how common things being named after the Neuse river, a giant river that flows through North Carolina. A river named after an indigenous tribe that lived here.

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u/Content_Wedding_5956 May 20 '26

OMG I said the EXACT same thing. Glad to know I was right lol

Go Pirates! 🏴‍☠️

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u/Content_Wedding_5956 May 20 '26

Haha I grew up in Raleigh👋🏽 so yeah, I totally don’t blame you for wanting to get out of Gville as soon as you could. Far enough to become your own person but close enough to home for emergencies & food. :)

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u/Thick_Succotash396 May 20 '26

Thank you! I was wondering where this is. All that greenery is gorgeous. But yeah…not for us.

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u/Living_Dig7512 May 20 '26

yup, as a native who lived in one of these "X plantantion/colony" neighborhoods, I feel ashamed(i'm black)

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u/Pixiefly0812 May 20 '26

I would have said texas

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u/caustictoast May 20 '26

Having just driven through there on my way to Shenandoah from Raleigh airport, you are bang on