Nico Carney

And it's like, whoa, there's a lot of people that live down there.

Um, so I think I've had like a broader appreciation for it.

And I like going back to the South and like, I like, I like going home and I like to, I used to feel like resentful of that, like sort of identity of being like, I'm from the South, but like, I've, I've come to really appreciate it because I think I want to reclaim that among this like sort of, I don't know, world where like so many of these like whack people from the,

from the fringes are coming in to try to like claim Southern identity is one thing when I think it's much broader.

So I don't know.

I feel like I really, I don't know.

I really, I like, I like that.

That's a part of like, and it's also like living up here now.

It's like everybody's from fucking Connecticut.

It's like, at least I got something interesting.

Yeah, no, and it's, I don't know, it's just like, it's given me such a more,

I think well-rounded, I don't know, view of people because just like you just are used to having grown up with all these people that you don't agree with at all, like having to like have gone to school with these kids forever.

And I don't know, it's just interesting.

It's also been, I mean, I will say on the flip side, it has been a little tough at times to like, you know, I've definitely lost relationships because of people's political leanings and, you know, how that intersects with my identity and things like that.

And it's like, it can be really frustrating, I think, to like be like,

I see this place as this beautiful opportunity and I find that a lot of the North

is a lot less diverse than they, they were like, Oh, we're like really great to black people up here.

I'm like, you don't have any black people up here.

What are you talking about?

It's like, or exactly.