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"I was raised in super rural Missouri, went to college in a liberal pocket of Nebraska, went to grad school in Indiana, chose Louisville, Kentucky as a home for 15 years, and have now been in a blue pocket of Kansas for nearly three years now. I won't leave the Midwest (or South, if that's how you want to categorize Louisville) because I want the US to stay purple. Admittedly, I stay near blue pockets, but every state I have lived in is similar. If you don't bring up politics or religion, then everything is copacetic. As you create true friendships, you'll find out that a close friend is actually of a very different school of thought than you, but that's where we as a society learn to stretch. I love not being in an echo chamber.…