Salty,
Thanks for the link to this podcast. My experience with smaller towns sounds similar to yours. We see it up here in New Hampshire too. There are the legacy residents — those with ancestry in the area, even if they themselves are young. There are ingrafted outside folks who become part of the community by getting involved (town fair, committees, etc.)
Then, there are the outsiders. Most of them are liberals from Massachusetts who moved up for the rustic/rural lifestyle, but as Spice described, they have the suburban-style home and yard, but other than having them honk at you if you don’t accelerate soon enough from the stop sign, you never see them. They only -sleep- in the town.
Those are the folks who, if things “go south” will become the rancorous complainers and troublemakers. They are the ones who’ve grown up being fed by the Nanny State. They will demand their “essential services.”
So, not only will the small towns with ‘cracks’ be stern about taking in refugees, they’ll have to deal with the cancer within.
Salty,
Thanks for the link to this podcast. My experience with smaller towns sounds similar to yours. We see it up here in New Hampshire too. There are the legacy residents — those with ancestry in the area, even if they themselves are young. There are ingrafted outside folks who become part of the community by getting involved (town fair, committees, etc.)
Then, there are the outsiders. Most of them are liberals from Massachusetts who moved up for the rustic/rural lifestyle, but as Spice described, they have the suburban-style home and yard, but other than having them honk at you if you don’t accelerate soon enough from the stop sign, you never see them. They only -sleep- in the town.
Those are the folks who, if things “go south” will become the rancorous complainers and troublemakers. They are the ones who’ve grown up being fed by the Nanny State. They will demand their “essential services.”
So, not only will the small towns with ‘cracks’ be stern about taking in refugees, they’ll have to deal with the cancer within.
— Mic