If you ever needed proof that coastal elites treat half the country like a safari exhibit, look no further than Gavin Newsom and his better half, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. She is an actual woman, which I guess settles another mystery.
Remember Newsom’s grand “Red States Tour”? That was the one where California’s governor traveled around the country lecturing red states about how they’re doing life wrong… while his own state was busy speedrunning homelessness, crime spikes, and people fleeing in U-Hauls full of regret.
But the real gem wasn’t Gavin. It was Jennifer.
An old interview resurfaced, and it turns out she didn’t just tag along for the ride. No, she brought the kids. Why? For a wholesome family vacation? Civil War history? Southern culture?
Of course not.
She wanted to show them what “racism, sexism, and bigotry” look like.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELShe took her kids to red states so that they could see the racism everywhere. Forget the fact that history shows the more the South became Republican, the less racist it became.
Yes. Really.
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Nothing says “family bonding” like packing up the minivan and heading to Alabama or Tennessee for a guided tour of imaginary oppression. Forget beaches or museums. The plan was apparently: “Kids, today we’re going to observe prejudice in its natural habitat. Stay close.”
It’s almost impressive. While most parents are trying to shield their kids from negativity, the Newsoms were apparently curating a live-action documentary titled “Finding Racism: The Southern Edition.”
It reminds me of the movie Vacation when they took a wrong exit off the highway and wound up in a really bad neighborhood:
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And here’s the part that really stings the narrative.
Talk to people who’ve actually lived in both places, and you’ll often hear a very different story. Plenty will tell you that the South they experienced wasn’t the cartoon villain it’s made out to be. In fact, some say the most blatant, in-your-face racist attitudes came from the very left-wing “enlightened” places that lecture everyone else.
I have a black friend I work with, who told me he grew up in the South in Mobile, AL. And he said that when he went to college in Boston, he never experienced racism as he did there. He said it was very evident and very in your face with the liberals in Boston at the university and around all of Boston. He said he didn’t really experience much racism in the South because the South is no longer about that.
Try to sell that reality to a Democrat governor from the leftward land of silliness.
But none of that matters when you’ve already decided what the script is. When you’re convinced you’re morally superior, every road trip becomes a field study in confirming your own assumptions.
You can almost picture it:
“Look, kids,” Mom says, pointing out the window. “Do you see it?”
“See what?”
“Look at all those poor black people suffering.”
“Mom, I don’t see anything like that.”
“Exactly. That’s how subtle it is.”
At some point, it stops being about reality and starts being about performance. A kind of political tourism where the goal isn’t to learn anything, but to come home feeling validated in your preconceived notions.
And that’s really the story here.
Not racism. Not the South. Not even politics.
It’s the mindset.
The belief that half the country exists as a cautionary tale… while the other half pretends it has everything figured out. And as it turns out, study after study and survey after poll determine conservatives in red states are much happier and fulfilled than their counterparts in blue states.
Meanwhile, regular Americans, red state or blue state, are just trying to live their lives without being cast as extras in someone else’s morality play.
But hey, at least the Newsom kids got a memorable vacation out of it.
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