I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.
The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.
People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.