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28. Is the Wyo. forum the loniest place on DU?

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I know Wyoming is conservative, but I was shocked to learn that there was anyplace in the US that desolate. Big state, very small population.

I was watching a TV show once, some sort of documentary-reality thing (I don't recall what, the following story was the only memorable thing about it; possibly some sort of travel show?), anyways it was something where they were traveling in a camper...and in one episode they broke down on the side of the interstate in Wyoming. It's April or May and it's like barely 50'F about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, they realize they've got no cell-signal, they don't remember seeing civilization or any other cars lately so they decide to huddle-down and wait for someone to come by...4 hours later they see the next car. That shocked me. I've never lived outside the major metropoli of the Eastern seaboard except going to summer on my grandparents farms growing up...I didn't know that there was anyplace in America one could be that isolated.

So I ask, if Wyoming is conservative and it has a population-density to rival the outer steppes of Mongolia, does that make its' DU forum the loneliest place on DU?