“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40210471
December 3, 2025
On a chilly evening in mid-November, about 135 people gathered along a highway in Boone, North Carolina, a small Appalachian college town not known as a hotbed of leftist protest. They held signs reading “Nazis were just following orders too” and “Time to melt the ICE,” and chanted profane rebukes at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rumored to be in the area. “They came here thinking they wouldn’t be bothered,” one Appalachian State University student told The Appalachian at the impromptu rally. “Boone is a small, southern, white, mountain town. We need to let them know they’ll be bothered anywhere they go.” In a region often stereotyped as silently conservative, this flash of defiance was a startling sign that the battle line
I am sorry but this is bullshit. I live in this area and Boone may not be a hotbed of leftist activity in the mountains of WNC but t is not what this article is making it out to be. Boone was gerrymander away out of the 11th district for a reason. Its voting black was large enough when paired with Asheville to sway WNC Democratic. Outside of Asheville and Boone WNC is a sea of uneducated MAGA and fundamentalist Christians that either do not vote or are violently MAGA. Do not get me wrong. There are a lot of non-Trumpers here but not enough to make a difference. Honestly, outside of Boone the locals are perfectly fine with what is going on.
Truthfully, after reading the article I even wonder if the author has even been to Boone. One section talks about blood in the hills and the ending of mining. Mining never happened in WNC. Logging was the thing here. The article even talks about Blair Mountain which is nowhere near Boone. In the end this article not nothing but hopeium.