This high-school program is teaching big-city kids that Southerners, rural farmers aren’t racist — or even that different

Orientul Mijlociu

New York City kids raised in a progressive bubble often assume that the South is full of backward bigots. But some are discovering firsthand that these strangers are, in fact, people just like them. The American Tributaries program sends kids from NYC and suburban New Jersey to South Carolina — where President Trump won 58.2% of the vote last year — to open their minds up to how the rest of the country lives. Leo Mullin, an 18-year-old from Brooklyn, recalled meeting farmer George Albers, who