Small town America

Small towns are often romanticized in homogenized, pretty little tales that have nothing to do with reality.
 
Moving in as an outsider is certainly not easy, but growing up there and never leaving cannot be easy for people who actually think about what is going on.

People tend to settle into comfortable ruts that go unchallenged for generations.

Who you know counts more than what is legal, or right.

If you have money people believe you really know and that money carries a lot of authority.

Decisions are made, politics decided on, and prejudices justified by generations of traditions.

The local newspaper is more concerned with keeping people happy than printing the news.

Libraries, especially school libraries, are censored by a few self righteous know-it-alls, as are teachers.

There are unspoken legacies that are nearly sacred. Cheerleaders, football and basketball players, class presidents, and The Ladies League leaders, fall deeply into this abyss.

And it is all so widely accepted and praised that to defile the fantasy is the worst crime in the world.