If you were to move, how important is a red state?

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meltzerboy2 said:
When a friend of mine moved from NYC to Louisiana, he was at first amazed that almost everyone, including women professors he knew from LSU, carried shotguns with them everywhere. It was part of their get-up like a pocketbook.
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I think the terminologies might be a bit off here. I don’t think it was “shotguns” that they were carrying. Probably more like pistols or revolvers. Shotguns are big, like rifles, and they shoot a volley of buckshot. Two different things.

I could be wrong, but I’ve never seen people carrying around shotguns in their daily lives. And they would be impossible to conceal by their very nature.
 
According to my friend, they were “big guns.” He thought they were shotguns but maybe they were not. On the other hand, definitely not pistols or revolvers. At any rate, my friend eventually went with some of his friends in LA for target practice…with pistols or revolvers, I believe.
 
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meltzerboy2 said:
According to my friend, they were “big guns.” He thought they were shotguns but maybe they were not.
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It is common to carry shotguns around in one’s truck (or car), but not to lug them around by hand. So maybe he was referring the gun racks in their vehicles??
 
I’ll have to ask him. It would seem to be something inconvenient to schlep around.
 
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Very blue state here. I won’t be moving because I generally really like it here, but if I were younger and deciding I might well go for a red state. It is super hard to be a conservative here: there seem to be none. Or, better put, we are all “in the closet” to one degree or another. Conservative opinions are downright hated in this area. No Trump signs at all during the election, and if you put one out it would be vandalized immediately. I’ve had to bite my tongue a million times at, for example neighborhood gatherings or community events. It can be quite uncomfortable to hold to what many of them vehemently consider “racist, misogynist, hateful” ideas. Oh, and this is also a pretty Catholic area of the country. Go figure.
 
I think a lot of it has more to do with NYC politics (I lived in Manhattan) than the rest of the state. I think some really bad choices have been made (beginning with the election of the current mayor).
 
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Anne1964 said:
Things I would like if I move to another state:

Daily Latin Mass
Low taxes
Cold climate with snow
Mountains
Strong 2nd amendment support

If anyone knows of such a location please tell me.
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Lander Wyoming may come close. With the presence of Wyoming Catholic College, it may be a good fit, even if daily mass isn’t in Latin.
 
RolandThompsonGunner said:
magine being so wrapped in political tribalism you couldn’t be polite and neighborly with someone because they belonged to one of the two mainstream parties in a country of 300 million.
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I believe you just described every Democrat I know - they are unable to be polite, let alone neighborly to anyone with a different world view.
 
Isaac14 said:
Lander Wyoming may come close. With the presence of Wyoming Catholic College, it may be a good fit, even if daily mass isn’t in Latin.
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I am really happy to hear about Wyoming. I’ll be there will be people interested in moving there just on this information. Are there any other red states that seem truly conservative for religious people?
 
mercyalways said:
I believe you just described every Democrat I know - they are unable to be polite, let alone neighborly to anyone with a different world view.
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Oh, good grief. I live in a very mixed area, and everyone – Democrat, Republican, Independent - is polite to each other. Never saw anyone be rude at the grocery store or the gas station or church or the feed store, just because the other person had different political views.
In real life, that is. CAF can be another story.
 
puer.dei said:
Never saw anyone be rude at the grocery store or the gas station or church or the feed
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Wow, you are lucky. I have not been so lucky, neither by family members who are angry atheist Democrats, or by neighbors who steal my signs, make rude comments, etc.

Also, you seem to have missed the 2 billion in riot damages, the over 700 injuries to police by leftists during the late insurrection, the constant cancelling of professors and students with a conservative opinion, the blocking and lying by big tech, etc., etc.
 
mercyalways said:
Also, you seem to have missed the 2 billion in riot damages, the over 700 injuries to police by leftists during the late insurrection, the constant cancelling of professors and students with a conservative opinion, the blocking and lying by big tech, etc., etc.
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I didn’t miss anything. You seem to have missed the fact that my post was responding to yours saying that Democrats (apparently all, since you didn’t modify that) are “unable to be polite, let alone neighborly.”
Nice try at diverting attention from your accusation, though.
 
mercyalways said:
Wow, you are lucky. I have not been so lucky, neither by family members who are angry atheist Democrats, or by neighbors who steal my signs, make rude comments, etc.
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You are unlucky indeed to live among such people. Come to Massachusetts, where the Democrats don’t bite, and they even like their Republican governors and neighbors.
 
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Beryllos said:
You are unlucky indeed to live among such people. Come to Massachusetts, where the Democrats don’t bite, and they even like their Republican governors and neighbors.
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They have also made it impossible for Catholic adoption agencies to provide desperately needed aid to pregnant women. So, if you have been raped and are a devout Catholic and wish to give your child to a devout Catholic mother and father, you have no where to turn.

Also, are you aware of the horrible cancel culture that exists in most of your colleges?
 
Anne1964 said:
Things I would like if I move to another state:

Daily Latin Mass
Low taxes
Cold climate with snow
Mountains
Strong 2nd amendment support

If anyone knows of such a location please tell me.
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I was going to say Wyoming but the Latin mass is only available on Sunday in the two parishes that offer it. One of them also has a Wednesday Latin mass but no daily mass. Wyoming only has a bit over half a million people total but 18% are Catholics!

All your other requirements are met, however. No state tax. Very red state. Mountains. Snow. Just about everyone owns guns and you can open carry. The TLM seems to be the only strike against it.
 
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