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I live in a deep purple area. This means blue with fleks of red thrown in in a Bob Ross style. I'd argue that there is actually a high percentage of "closet Trumpers" in my area mainly because I can cite about two dozen of them who have "come out" to me this election cycle.
I would definitely like to move somewhere more deeply red. In fact, I have my list built. What keeps me from doing it is that I worry about it enabling me to go too deep into a RETVRN mindset. To be specific, Northern Idaho around the Post Falls area is a pretty hardcore Catholic Conservative area. The FSSP has a parish in Post Falls (which is kind of an extension of Coeur D'Alene). A big part of me looks at this and sees an outdoors oriented recreation culture, a state that will be deep Red for the forseeable future (and a highly libertarian Red at that), a for real Catholic community (not the neutered cultural Catholicism of the Northeast), but with the lack of potential for urbanization that might ruin it with enough emmigration. I'd love to go there right fucking now.
But, in ten years, am I a neo-luddite homeschooling 10 kids with equal parts of my portfolio in physical gold in my basement and crypto? Can I no longer watch college football because the crowdshots send me into a frenzy because they look like Gomorrah? Is my hypothetical future TradeWife (minimum 10 years my junior) afraid of going to the grocery store on her own because of the impure leers she gets from young unmarried men, despite the fact that her wardrobe is primarily ankle length utility skirts?
You can see I'm being humorous here, but the wondering concern is real. The big coastal urban centers are already a no-go (I fled from one years ago). But the "American Redoubt" concepts, while compelling, also seem to me to be reactionary to such a degree as to be inviting more gradual takeover by the PMC. I don't necessarily like the world, but I feel like I have to stay in it to help save it....maybe?
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