You're From Where? Bye!

I gotta admit it. I have never considered myself to be a person that discriminates but the moment that someone tells me that they are from Detroit, Chicago, or Jacksonville I clutch my invisible double-stranded pearls and scurry away like a roach buried deep within the contents of a Papa Johns box. I have no idea why but I have always felt like anyone from the listed cities has seen more than my Gwinnett County eyes can bear and therefore they are always ready to square up. I realize that this is a sweeping generalization and it sounds ignorant at best so spare me on the "I'm from Detroit and I'm perfectly normal" commentary because chances are..you've snatched a few purses umkay? lol. In all seriousness, I would really like to know where this ideology came from and why I feel like this. It sparked something in me but allowed me to see that this mindset is equally as terrible as someone not wanting to be around me because I'm a Gemini or because i'm a black female. I think we live in a world where it's easy to write an entire group of people off based on one experience or better yet-no experience at all. I mean, how many of us have sworn off Capricorns because a Capricorn broke our heart or told ourselves that all people from a certain region think a certain way?? When you say it out loud it sounds beyond crazy, right? I have spent too many years stuck in the mindset that I can't have friends from Detroit, Chicago or Jacksonville because they are "too much." Truth be told, I'm too much. I am a "good" too much but still.. too much is too much!! As funny as it has been to hold on to this "no new friends" policy when it comes to people from Detroit, Chicago or Jacksonville, it's time to grow up a little and stop being so judgy. I'm going to officially stop the madness and let ya'll live...(although i'm sure that once this blog gets our there, i'm going to get beat up). So here's my question to any of my readers: Have you ever put an entire group of people in a box? Because if you have, you are no better than the racist or the sexist person that can't see that they are racist or sexist. So, lets give people room to disappoint us if they are going to disappoint us. In conclusion all i've got to say it this "hey people from Detroit, Jacksonville, or Chicago..My purse is open and it's on the table". Olive branch or nah?