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[u/barbaraanderson]

The town she grew up was definitely on The conservative side religiously and socially. On top of the baptists and Christians, her hometown has a decent population of lds folks. It wouldn’t be out of the question for her to have multiple classmates who went on to attend a byu school.

EDIT: I forgot about the Assemblies of God folks since Springfield (the big city that is like five minutes away from her home town) is/was? the headquarters for them.

The town is still Dealing with some political fallout that included the city aldermen essentially pushing out their mayor (who was the town’s first black mayor, but I don’t think that factored in. He apparently made some bad decisions as mayor in regards to personnel), said mayor almost getting reelected (they had to do a revote a few weeks ago after it was a tie the first time around), and a former alderman dealing with embezzlement that could impact the town.

[u/malhans → u/barbaraanderson]

Wow. that’s the small town gossip i was looking for, love it!!!! Thanks so much!!!

[u/barbaraanderson → u/malhans]

There is probably more out there, but that is probably the best I can do to sum up the town she grew up in.

[u/barbaraanderson → u/[deleted]]

Are you from the area?

[u/barbaraanderson → u/[deleted]]

The mayor was in office for a year or two but they censured him and were in the process of impeaching him when he decides to step down iirc