Chatanooga proper seems to have done it's best to be welcoming, but it's the mountains nearby that are the draw, and the folks up there, well.. let's just say I rode by some places with signs that made it very clear non-whites weren't welcome.
It's something we need to work on.
Sorry you didn't have a great experience!
I'm extremely curious to know where you saw that. I live in Chattanooga, and I've never seen such a thing.
I am sorry you had such a bad experience with the cycling and can sympathize. I stopped riding on public streets here a couple years back. Not worth my life.
I'm going to have to ask for proof because it hasn't been 1961 for a very long time now. And Chatty is a very very long way from Vidor, Texas.
A "yuppie" is an term of 1980s vintage for "young urban professional", formed directly from the phrase.
A "hipster" is a term of more recent invention, for basically the same thing (a young urban professional).
Both carry some implications of both in-group trendiness and conspicuous consumption though, with the changing character of the times, the "yuppie" has stronger associations with conspicuous consumption and "hipster" with trendiness with less general conspicuous consumption (and perhaps an outward, though often skin deep, rejection of consumerism.)
A millennial is a member of a particular generational cohort, basically the group now between the mid-teens and mid-30s. Modern hipsters/yuppies are probably also millenials, but plenty of millenials are neither.
Every generation gets a name, huge swaths of commerce depend on it.
And it's godawful expensive.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but motherfuck the snow. And Boulder rent.
