Any small-medium mostly white suburb or rural town - which is to say the entire state.
There are small pockets of comparative tolerance, usually centered around universities.
Take any smaller town, even outside the larger cities like Lansing and Grand Rapids: Charlotte, Eaton Rapids, DeWitt, Wyoming, and more. It gets worse as you go further north. I've been to potlucks in Traverse City (of friends of friends, not relatives, thankfully) with racial slurs being thrown around left and right. Let's not even talk about the Upper Peninsula.
Isn't this an issue with most states though? Big metropolitan areas tend to lean liberal, rural areas tend to lean conservative, and every state has a similar distribution?
I've always contemplated moving out of MI to the west coast, but I've heard it's just the same sort of dynamic. So I just stick to metro Detroit, Flint, Ann Arbor, etc
The Midwest is far more proud of it. Yes, it you go to Eastern Washington/Oregon or Northern California, voters are more conservative, but I've done road trips in the last couple years through all that territory and I can sit in a brewery or go to a hotel without having it all thrown in my face. In suburban Michigan the locals are proud of their bigotry in a manner I just don't encounter in blue states.
No one in Washington was overtly plotting to kidnap the governor. The Eastern counties hate Inside but they're not as maniacal.
There are small pockets of comparative tolerance, usually centered around universities.
Take any smaller town, even outside the larger cities like Lansing and Grand Rapids: Charlotte, Eaton Rapids, DeWitt, Wyoming, and more. It gets worse as you go further north. I've been to potlucks in Traverse City (of friends of friends, not relatives, thankfully) with racial slurs being thrown around left and right. Let's not even talk about the Upper Peninsula.