There are areas of Texas I’ve heard about that I’d avoid for sure. My point was mainly that Southern hospitality does not always extend to everyone. There is plenty of exclusion, like the hippy commune you mention. Do you think a Christian small town could coexist with a sizeable hippy population? How would such a town react to a small group against putting religious icons in government buildings? Liberals don’t have to make up the intolerance that many people in the South do have. People literally believe there is a war on Christmas.

I understand that there’s a difference, believe it or not I’ve actually met and talked to people from the South. You just claim that these people are entrenched in a culture that is toxic to so many others, that regresses things like the fight against global warming, but that we must respect this culture of ignorance. I can’t respect a nice person’s religion, even if they are nice, when that religion means they have to force others to conform to their morality or their way of life. Sure there is some tolerance, but then there are plenty of instances of intolerance to cancel it out.

One thing I learned over the years was how and when to ask for help. If an entire people have a culture of not asking for help when they desperately need it, how are they not just pulling down everyone else with them? Why should anyone provide help to those who don’t ask, when there are so many who do need help and do ask? How are we to know that these people even need help when they live in such small communities we don’t see them from the highway, when they don’t say anything, when they choose to be invisible in their silence?