If you ever get a chance, visit the beautiful Northwest, which has rednecks, pickup trucks, and casinos aplenty, in addition to a few large cities. As well as one State that has a ballot initiative process so open that it allowed it's citizens to vote in LEGALIZED medical marijuana for people who suffer from cancer and the like. So open that fiscal conservatives like myself ALSO are likely to vote down a tax increase by the idiotic "liberals" down at the legislature.

I spent a lot of time in the South, and I even miss things about it from time to time, but you make your State sound very unfriendly, at least for people in need of medical treatment...