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what are some things that i should not do in america??
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"i'm from mexico"
Racists are going to treat you poorly through most of the Southern states.
Your best bet is to look at political maps like this:
Avoid the red states.
Even in the blue states, avoid the red parts of blue states:
On the other hand, you're far more likely to encounter fellow Spanish language speakers in some of the southern red states like Texas and Florida. So I wouldn't necessarily write off any given state so quickly like that.
Those are also the states that are trying to pass laws that let themselves pull over any Latino looking person so they can check their papers.
Nebraska and Maine are the two states that assign Electoral College votes proportionally, so even though Trump won the state, Biden got enough votes to peel off one Congressional district.
Same thing the other way in Maine.
Trust me, the color of a state is not going to indicate whether someone is racist or not. In fact, most states are going to be non-racist. Meanwhile, Vermont, which is my own state, is the bluest state in the US, yet people in Vermont are going to be the most likely state to bombard you with questions about where you're from.
Tell me you've never been to the south without telling me.
I dearly loved Memphis, but I'd never suggest someone from Mexico go there.
These are concerning assumptions. One might say... misinformational.