Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska is a small town with big town ambitions, but they are trapped by consistently voting against their own interests. Last lynching was only 101 years ago in nearby Omaha, Nebraska where it got so bad they called in the national guard to restore order. The movie Boys Don’t Cry was about a rape/murder that took place against a trans man in Lincoln in the eary 1990s.The mainly German descendant population talks a big talk, all live and let live, but they’re just not racist to your face since they seem to think that’s what being polite is. You will get profiled and pulled over, especially if you have out of town plates. Cop in between Lincoln and Omaha pulled me over and was convinced I was a drug mule from Chicago (where I live)because I was driving a junk car. Later, I found out I was lucky since the same officer shot up a college building with an AR while chasing some kid a few years earlier. There is an insidious undercurrent to the state (which was the site of border skirmishes during the Bleeding Kansas incidents when slave owners flocked to NE and KS to try and make them slave states before the war). The motto there is “Nebraska Nice” which is fitting cause nice is derived from the Latin word for ignorant.