the South, as a whole, is not pro-liberty read some Albion's Seed the south was settled by two tribes: tidewater aristocracy who LIKE hierarchy and authority, and Scots Irish, who are schizophrenic re liberty at best ( "I have the right to speed & litter but thin blue line")https://twitter.com/braxton_mccoy/status/1401752976851574786 …
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2/ the west is more libertarian than most other areas I don't expect the south to "wake up" and show their libertarianism because...the culture as a whole is not libertarian
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The Scots-Irish part of the south actually respects a need for authority, but also reserves a right to flout it at times by some arcane algorithm you have to be born and raised there to “get”. They both like cops and also think getting one over on the cops is hilarious.
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You cannot take pleasure in evading or flouting something that isn't there. Authority needs to exist to make the fruit forbidden and thus tastier.
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Replying to @ZombieClaudeR @MorlockP
Yes. We don’t tend to like serious law-breakers but we love us some *rascals*

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with the caveat that I'd rather be around Scots Irish than New England Puritans, so I'm criticizing out of love, not looking down my nose the problem with "rascals" is that one man's rascal is another man's life-endangering fool / thief / vandal
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Replying to @MorlockP @ZombieClaudeR
Yes. I know. Not at all claiming we make sense to anyone but us.
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I wouldn't want the US to be without its Scots Irish and its rascals, but I'm old enough and tired enough and introverted enough that I'd rather be AROUND old school country yankees. Not Boston Puritans, but country cabinet makers and gardeners, keeping things calm and tidy
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Replying to @MorlockP @ZombieClaudeR
I can see that. We’re way too messy and dramatic for you. Everything has an upside/downside. The things that make southerners charming, loyal-to-a-fault, and the best story-tellers around also make us a PITA.
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