There were no marches or sit-ins in my little town in the foothills of north Georgia.

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"There used to be 60 to 70 boats out of my little town, " he says.

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"If it weren't for the cruise industry, my little town of Skagway would have been boarded up, " says Hites.

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In my little town of Ranger, we only had poor whites.

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