Hard to judge without the context of the other sentences of the story but if I had to guess, it sounds "inviting and familiar" to me.
Explanation:
Dixiecrat, also called States’ Rights Democrat, member of a right-wing Democratic splinter group in the 1948 U.S. presidential election organized by Southerners who objected to the civil rights program of the Democratic Part
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<span>1.a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation.
2.</span><span>theatrical entertainment of a broadly humorous often earthy character consisting of short turns (see </span><span>2turn</span><span> 4d), comic skits, and sometimes striptease acts.
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Developing skills is important to her