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About 10 or so years ago, my older brother used to work with a lot of African Americans for a rental car agency in the Chicago area, driving back cars long distances to their original departure points. The drivers would all drive their rental cars in a group on these cross-country ‘drive-back’ treks out West. He told me there were times when some of the African Americans, upon just starting on the job and driving for their first time out of an urban area, would comment at rest stops on how amazed they were at the amount of ‘open space’ there actually was once they got out in the country – almost as though they thought there would still be lots of buildings and concrete. Is this an anomaly, or are there many African Americans (or others) who have never been out of a city who don’t have this sense or understanding of the degree of open space there actually is in the United States?
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Name : P, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Unity member, Age : 36, City : N/A, State : FL, Country : United States, Social class : Middle, 

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