Claire,

Just an observation, not a criticism.

Vermont for instance is beautiful.   It was once a friendly conservative place. I have visited many times and always enjoyed being there.

But I am from South Carolina.   Although it is not free, is highly regulated and is as politically correct as anywhere else; it is also warm, hot, humid, sultry, leafy for ten months in most areas, full of strange reptiles and bugs, fire ant ridden, mountainous and flat, stormy (tornadoes and hurricanes), full of many acccents (some slow, some unintelligible to outsiders), interupted by ominous dark colored rivers and creeks, thick with diverse dangerous wildlife, crawling with spiders, swampy, floored with red sticky clay or sand that will not hold moisture, hung with ivy, vines, poison plants and grey Spanish moss, etc. I Love it here and there are just a few less people who judge me for my way of life.

Why would I want to live in Vermont or someplace else in a free state project where it is mostly cool to cold and boasts less biodiversity (some places have bigger beasts but we have the most and strangest species).  I’ll just stay here and visit the rest of the world on occasion.  I have satellite and can view and hear the world and can read almost any English language (And French) book or journal ever published thanks to Amazon and Google.

And I will not contest anyone’s choice to live elsewhere, Y’all.

Cordially and most respectfully,

T. Simmons
Columbia, SC

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