But KANSAS is/was one hell of a band
There is that too. It's mostly the route that you took. Go farther east and it's different. Eastern Colorado is the same as the western part of Kansas.
Sadly, it goes beyond state level. I live in a rural area just outside the city...and we have an increasing number of people moving out here because of city issues, typically HOA Nazis, restrictive city codes, high taxes, etc.
They move out here for the increased freedom, and then almost immediately, start whining about how the neighbors are doing annoying things, not taking care of their property to the newcomer's standards, making too much noise at night, their horses and other farm animals bringing in flies/manure stink, etc...which is always followed with "I'm calling the cops! I'm complaining to the county!" etc etc etc.
Thankfully we're still in a state of the cops/government not giving a rat's behind about us, so it's merely confined to Facebook whining right now, but I'm sure it will be changing over the next decade as the city creeps ever closer to us...
but you would think the cops mechanics would at least know how to adjust a headlight.
There are moments when I visit a highly-deregulated state, and I dislike the results a lot more than the mild regulations in California. Take for example when I visited Cheyenne in 2018. I happened to arrive during some rodeo competition. I just wanted to pick up some food and go to a city park with my daughter and my father, but there were only something like only 5 parks with a bathroom in the whole city. I guess deregulated states aren't big on public places. We tried to go to 3 of the 5 parks, but every street was double parked with pickup trucks and cars from the spectators at the rodeo. It was dozens of blocks away. We couldn't even find a parking spot anywhere in the city.
This also carried over to RVs, whether it was a motorhome or trailer. So people could bring their RV home for a night to load it up for weekend camping, but couldn't keep it at home long term...it had to be stored off site somewhere.
basically, so you can speak up about things you like or dislike. So many people don't try to pressure their representatives (be it local, state, or federal) to do things like they should. Yeah they are likely to tell you to take a hike if it's just you, but if you get enough people backing whatever it is, it's harder for them to ignore. Politicians should be afraid of their electorate so they will do what the PEOPLE want.
Problem with that is when you get a massive influx of people not "from" that area...who then want to change a way of life to what _they_ think the way should be.
Problem with that is when you get a massive influx of people not "from" that area...who then want to change a way of life to what _they_ think the way should be.
If you can't handle the changes, you're the one with the problem.
If you feel you're on the side of the majority, get others to join you in speaking up about it. That's how democracy is supposed to work in practice.
Why are people like myself, and the rest of my community, the one with the problem? Why do the people moving here that couldn't handle the changes where they came from, get a free pass?
It's a Republic, not mob rule
Why are people like myself, and the rest of my community, the one with the problem? Why do the people moving here that couldn't handle the changes where they came from, get a free pass?