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(see Wickipedia for "deportations"
and frankly, when I was there 20 years ago, before I knew about its history and definitely before it became "cool", I found the people running the mine tours behaving like a bunch of fascists.
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And that ugly illegal deportation history was, c'MON -- 95 years ago.
Certainly the current residents may have some second thoughts about that
behavior now.
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The town itself is a laidback, friendly, fun, extremely arts- and GLBT-friendly
community full of funky shops, bistros, galleries and cool people. I believe the
town was an artist/hippie magnet/Mecca during the 60's and 70's.
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I'm not convinced that you were presenting the present-day town in a
broadbrushed manner due to the behavior of a major local industry, but it
kinda feels that way.
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To illustrate that company towns don't necessarily reflect company ideologies,
Jefferson County, CO contains the headquarters of one of the most infamous
union-busting companies in modern times, Coors. Yet, in 2008, the county voted
55% for Barack Obama.
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I have never been to San Francisco, but I think of Bisbee as a tiny little San
Francisco in Southern Arizona. And we can use all the San Francisco that we
can get in a state so devastatingly tarnished and tainted by the likes of Brewer
and Arpaio.
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And it's OK to refer to it as cool without the quotation marks. Cool is a pretty
"cool" word.
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