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Sorta tangentially, many American suburban developments are arranged primarily to be as defensible as possible in a way that makes the people living there extremely paranoid. Suburbs often have one or two entrances / exits branching into one looping and some number of non-looping paths. As a result, there will almost never be anyone driving through the suburb without a deliberate reason to be there. Most often, it's because they live there. Neighbors will quickly recognize each other's cars and be able to identify each other's comings and goings. Seeing an unexpected car (or any person of color as many of these spaces are entirely white) will immediately raise questions on the neighborhood snitch app or text group. Also, neighbors are constantly spying on each other because the structure of suburbia highly encourages it. This type of suburban design was created explicitly because of and for the purpose of racist paranoia.
Also people were compelled to root out secret "commies" hiding among them, as that was another thread of McCarthy era paranoia.
When you say commies do you mean black people?
hard to be a secret black person
takes a lot of makeup
It's not impossible tho
"Don't be too sure. They might be black."
lmao that line sold it for me.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: