I was raised in rural Pennsylvania and the values I received were from my parents and our excellent public school. I was taught to value people no matter their race, religion, ethnicity.  There were only two Catholic families in the part of the township where we lived, but I never experienced bigotry from my non-Catholic friends and neighbors.  In fact my parents moved to the township to escape the bigotry in the nearby small town (circa 5,000) and to escape their poor school system. My experience was that it was not rural Pennsylvania but small town Pennsylvania where the bigotry existed.