Is your small town seeing protests?

[DeminPennswoods]

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My hometown, about 8 or 9000 people, has had 3 so far with several hundred people participating. All have been peaceful, diverse and supported by city police and government officials. I think there was another event yesterday too. We are usually a few steps behind the times so it's interesting to see this happen.

If you are outside a major PA metro area, what are things like in your community?

[TEB]

1. No

Only up in Harrisburg 60 miles away

[Mike Nelson]

2. Yes...

... yesterday, I went to get some groceries. I was surprised! They were mostly White... home made signs. Several said, "Black Live Matter." MLK was on one sign. Police cars were there to help with traffic. I honked as that was what they asked, to show support... a lot of honking from cars. I was, to restate, very surprised.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Anything happening in Dubois (Clearfield County)?

[Kaiserguy]

4. They had one in Bradford

(McKean County) one is planned for Kane also (McKean County )

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Wow, that is significant to me

There aren't too many people of color in the northern tier of PA.

[kaycee22]

15. Yes

There was one in Clearfield the other day. It looked like a decent turnout for this area.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Excellent. My father grew up in Dubois. The KKK marched there during the Twenties.

[PJMcK]

5. Yes

Our house is in Damascus, PA which is in NE Pennsylvania on the Delaware River. Yesterday, there was a protest rally across the river in Callicoon, NY. A cop told me they were expecting 50-60 people but were surprised that there were nearly 300 at the rally.

This is a very rural area and although Callicoon is a weekend destination for some people, it was a real surprise to see so many folks turn out.

[Freddie]

6. Yes

Quakertown which is in Upper Bucks County and mostly still more small town than suburban. The first protest was last Tuesday. The local RWNJs spread rumors about “Antifa” etc and published on FB that it was cancelled. It wasn’t, was very peaceful. The second was about 300 people in a park downtown, peaceful, everybody wearing masks and keeping their distance. Attended by a number of local clergy.

[we can do it]

7. Yes Rehoboth Beach Delaware

[Walleye]

8. Many towns in Delaware, small and large.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Our town of about 4300 in SW PA had a peaceful protest on Saturday..

There were about 300 people there. Also there were Veterans with AR 15s and one with a bat. They said they were "protecting" their monument. Scared the hell out of the young children who were attending the march. The same children who have to have safety drills at school because of mass shootings. I knew these hillbillies would do this...they were threatening marchers on the town's Facebook page. One of my friends had to call the police and DA over threats.

[samnsara]

10. we are a small university town so yes...about peaceful 100 marchers each day.

..I think our population is around 20,000. We are in Central Washington State...

[PRETZEL]

11. Not in the small town I currently live in SE PA

but my hometown in SW PA did and from the photos I've seen on Facebook, there was a pretty good turnout.

[Kilgore]

12. None

I live in a small town in SW Washington

[meow2u3]

14. No

I don't see any protests in my town in the Lehigh Valley.