When you live in any area, you will be dealing with individual human beings, not statistical probabilities.
I have a few questions:
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…I love the south. The people are nice … but I just can't stand them, politically.
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Who are the "them" that you can’t stand? All Southerners, or just the ones that you disagree with? Can you "stand" the Northerners that you disagree with? How exactly will being at a certain latitude have any effect on this? People are people. Yeah, I just quoted Depeche Mode.
But, wait. Maybe it’s not a "them" …maybe it’s an "it"
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It's … too conservative …
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It's … too christian (too babtist [sic], specifically) …
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What exactly is the "it" here? The actual dirt that you are standing on? The mind-control chemicals in the drinking water?
When I go to a Pagan Drum Circle, what is the "it" that swoops in, checks what latitude we're at, and transforms the whole gathering into a Baptist Church Service?
When I’m playing a gig, and we’re playing a Neil Young song, what is the "it" that swoops in, checks the latitude, and transforms the song we're playing into a Toby Keith song?
There is no "it" … There is no "them" … There are no "Red States" or "Blue States" …
No matter where you go, you will gravitiate towards a group of like-minded people. Or, ideally (and this is a whole new subject), you could interact with people that you don't pretend to agree with, 100% on everything, and you could find some understanding and some common ground, and expand your horizons as a human being instead of being stubbornly closed-minded, clinging to your little comfort zone.
The "us versus them" mentality is the number one problem in the world. Don't be a part of the problem.