| The Wal Marts where I've lived in Missouri (with the exception of the one outside of Fort Leonard Wood) haven't been as bad as the Wal Marts I've been in on the east coast. My idea of the "Wal Mart experience" was very similar to the "mall experience" until I joined the army and lived in North Carolina, New Jersey, Georgia and New York. In Harrisonville, MO (about 20 minutes south of Kansas City) and here in Columbia where I live now, the Wal Marts and full of middle class white folks who shop there for everything. On the east coast Wal Marts are stereotypically full of "non whites" and black folks and the people who you can see in this thread. It seems like Target is the mid-west Wal Mart (everybody I know in MO pronounces Target as though it were French [tar-jhay] to further the notion that it's more ritzy... /shrug)
I'm not suggesting that we have no weird country bumkins that wear three wolf shirts and tote six or seven niglets in their cart, just stating my observations from my travels.
Also, the Wal Marts I went to when I lived in Vegas for a few weeks seemed pretty white folks/ritzy compared to Wal Marts on the east coast, but everyone that worked there barely spoke english so meh. | 