AN ILLUSTRATIVE ANEDOTE ABOUT THE "UNDERCURRENT OF PREJUDICE" IN THE...

Mid-West.  From Wonkette:

Well! Here’s a charming little local business in Enid, Oklahoma, run by a “real character”: Gary’s Chicaros restaurant and bar, run by one Gary James, who doesn’t deny that he throws out any patrons he doesn’t like the looks of. His official restaurant T-shirts say so, with a clever promise of an “n-word-free zone.” (The shirts do not say “n-word.” But you guessed that already.)