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onions, keed?”) He sliced the pickles the long It helped that it was always open. Seven 5
way, with a rapidity that mesmerized his days a week, fifty-two weeks a year, Khan
customers. On a good day, he went through began prepping at ten, opened the window
a hundred and fifty buns. On a really good at eleven, and served food until midnight or Kathryn Schulz
day — when the rodeo came to town, say — he one or whenever the last of the bar crowd
would fire up a second grill and bring on an went home. It also helped that he would serve
extra high-school kid, and tour buses would anyone. Sheridan in 1919 was still the kind of
pull up and order a hundred burgers at a time. place where businesses posted signs saying
By 1919, the restaurant was doing so well that “No Dogs or Indians Allowed,” but Native
Khan opened a Ladies Annex, “fitted with Americans were welcome at Louie’s. Some of
tables for the convenience of women,” as the them, in consequence, became strikingly loyal
Sheridan Post reported. The place was still a customers. Joe Medicine Crow, the scholar
hole-in-the-wall — those tables numbered and Second World War hero, who died this
precisely three — but it was the most popular past April, at a hundred and two, loved Khan’s
hole-in-the-wall in town. burgers so much that, on his way home to

Americans’ Views on Immigration and Diversity in America Based on Age

% have favorable opinion of African 88%
Americans 91%
77%
% have favorable opinion of Hispanics
87%
46%
% have favorable opinion of Muslims
68%
% have regular conversations with 25%
African Americans 51%
% have regular conversations with 17%
Hispanics 44%

% have regular conversations with 16%
Muslims 34%
% believe societal change brought by 36%
immigrants to the U.S. is positive 68%
% favor paths to citizenship for 54%
immigrants to the U.S.
73%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Percentage

Americans age 65+ Americans age 18–29
As this chart shows, people become increasingly comfortable with diversity the more they
experience others who are not like them.
What evidence is there in Schulz’s story that this experience may be true even in places
like Gillette, Wyoming?
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