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Hope all you want, but a good half+ of the HQ2 hires will be minorities. Not a lot of minorities want to live in a deep south or Texas region due to racism, stand-your-ground, etc. Same thing for gays.

If you want to hope for diverse knowledge businesses opening in Dallas, perhaps start with pushing for equality.

I can think of a thousand examples, but here is the latest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/dallas-police-shooting... Dallas Police Officer Kills Her Neighbor in His Apartment, Saying She Mistook It for Her Own

Cop comes home to wrong apartment and kills black resident in that apartment. The really shocking thing -- widespread support amongst whites in support of the officer!

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As a trans woman who has lived in Dallas all her life, I agree.

There is a lot I love about Dallas, but with the state government trying to shove bathroom bills down our throats (the only reason it failed last time was because Joe Straus was a hero and sacrificed his career), I can't stay here. I've been considering a move to Las Vegas for some time now, and I'm getting closer to pulling the trigger on it.

Preach all you want, but the south is no more homophobic than any other region. Your own hefty bias only muddies the waters.

> the south is no more homophobic than any other region.

You can't possibly believe this is actually true. You think the South isn't any more homophobic than, say, the west coast? Really?

Here's some data, the first % is "Homosexuality should be accepted", the second is "Homosexuality should be discouraged": http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/vi...

First, a few states from the deep South:

Alabama - 41% :: 52%

Arkansas - 45% :: 47%

Georgia - 55% :: 38%

Mississippi - 40% :: 54%

South Carolina - 51% :: 42%

Now the west coast:

California - 69% :: 24%

Oregon - 66% :: 25%

Washington - 69% :: 27%

I lived in Alabama for a couple years. People are definitely more socially conservative there, and that does lend itself to homophobia. Not everyone who's a social conservative, of course, but it's definitely much more common than with social liberals.

No, the south is noticeably more racist. More overt, and more of it.

Absolutely. Just a couple years ago, it was decided not to hook up public transit in Atlanta to the new Braves stadium because, in the words of the county commissioner "we don't want to attract a certain crowd". The old white dudes running the show refer to MARTA as Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.

I've also personally seen a friend assaulted with a brick on school grounds, on camera for being gay. The school and police refused to do anything against the assaulter.

I left Atlanta for a reason, and haven't looked back.

EDIT: would love to know why examples of institutional racism and homophobia in the south would be downvoted.

This is laughably untrue. I've lived all over the country, including several years in Nashville, which is pretty "liberal" for the south. And while homophobia and other forms of bias are trending down for the south, it's definitely still the most regressive part of the country.

Do me a favor, go through this list and tell me what every single state with an acceptance rate below 50% has in common: http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/vi...

Meanwhile, the numbers for the NE and the western states are dramatically higher...

Ouch. This is not true at all.

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