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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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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"good ole boys didn't mean no harm, they were just having a few beers and got up to some shenanigans" makes perfect sense if you're friends or kin w those guys, but if you're the one who's car they stole, pigs they let loose for lulz, or who got run off the road...less so
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I'm not pushing for any cultural change, or carpet bagging reforms, or anything I'm just saying that the Scots Irish have the exact same mindset as, say, my barn neighbor - something makes his life 1% easier, well, then !@# the law, I've got a cousin who'll fix it, !@# you
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Eh, what your neighbor is doing would be frowned upon here. Permanent eyesore insults *to one’s actual neighbor* and being cheeky about the written law are not the same thing. Disturbing social harmony actually often ranks WORSE than flouting whatever the law is. We’re weird.
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But again, so much is relationship-based here. Which is both the best thing and the most frustrating thing about us. We’re not for everyone. And that’s fine.
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relationship-based culture is great for those who like it I find it horrible / frustrating when I run into it here this is not 'Nam; there are rules I don't care if your people have been here for 140 years & road has your last name that doesn't let you cut your buddy deals
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sadly, the evidence tends to contradict this assertion
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"doesn't" in a normative, not descriptive sense :(
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