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Author: Brandon Bounds

The State of Hate: Americans still march to July 4th tunes

A parade consisting of small-business owners, first responders, church groups and citizens marched through Perry, Iowa, for an Independence Day celebration, passing candy out to the kids on both sides of Wills Avenue. (Lenny Martinez Dominguez/News21)
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PERRY, Iowa – In an America that often seems more divided, there remains one event that brings people together: the Fourth of July. Residents of Perry, a farming and meatpacking town of 7,800, joined across party and ethnic lines to celebrate.

Brandon Bounds Posted on July 12, 2018August 7, 2018

The State of Hate: The divide is about the jobs, not race

Frankie McCandless (left) and Keith Terwillger are constructions workers from Tennessee working in Tekamah, Neb. “Too many people are crying and moaning about every little thing,” Terwilliger said. “Everybody is just too tender. Everything upsets everybody.” (Lenny Martinez Dominguez/News21)
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TEKAMAH, Neb. — Since the start of the State of Hate road trip, the News21 road warriors traveled more than 3,000 miles and reported in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and South Dakota, before they arrived in Nebraska.

Brandon Bounds Posted on July 10, 2018July 26, 2018

The State of Hate: In Marine Corps town, respect for others is respected

The Virginian Bar in Twentynine Palms, Califonia is located on the corner of 29 Palms Highway and Cholla Avenue. (Lenny Martinez Dominguez/News21)
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TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – It was a quiet afternoon for Kari Wilson, a bartender at The Virginian Bar in Twentynine Palms, a desert town of about 26,000 people on the edge of California’s Joshua Tree National Forest and the vast Mojave Desert.

Brandon Bounds Posted on June 29, 2018July 26, 2018
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