Actually, I've taken I-57 down to Memphis and just missed Cairo. Saw the exit for it, but most certainly did not check it out.

I did, however, briefly disembark at Charleston, Missouri, down in the bootheel. It was the first time in my life that I had been the only non-black person in a rural setting.

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I was driving to Memphis and saw Cairo at a point I was looking to take a little break. I figured it would be a quaint little river town with some Mark Twain history attached to it. Instead, it looked like a post apocalyptic movie set. Didn't even stop.

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Cairo in addition to being the southern most city in the state of Illinois, apparently has a lovely history of racial intolerance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo,_Illinois

The entry has one full section on lynchings and other on "Racial turbulence and economic decline". Yikes.

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Yep. Reminded me of some bombed out village in Poland from World War 2.

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So much of rural America is like that. In fact so much of America, in general, is like that. I was in Las Vegas on Monday visiting a customer. The plant was in this area of falling down 1950s trailer homes, looking like something you'd see in Port au Prince. Scary.

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Did you read the lynching section? Holy shit. Head on a stick???

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A friend of mine wrote her dissertation on Black Power in Cairo. She was struck by how deeply fucked-up a place it was, and is. She said it's basically a Deep South city that just happens to be situated in the Midwest.

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I've always wanted to visit Cairo. The fucked up past intrigued me. I'm talking a 5-minute-drive-through-the-town-then-get-the-fuck-out type visit. It's only a couple hours south of where I grew up.

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Aw shucks....



Hey, fuck you!

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Jesus Christ they may as well have lifted a set from the Walking Dead and plopped it down in southern Illinois.

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Schlitz on tap. They've got that going for them.

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Is it really the Midwest though? It's further south than the capitol of the Confederacy and Louisville, Ky.

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Avoid anything south of Mt. Vernon.

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Funny you should say that--a big part of her dissertation was redefining Cairo as a sort of borderland that was economically Midwestern but culturally Southern.

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