Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Michael Dunn, Florida Man, Invokes 'Stand Your Ground' Law After Shooting Black Teen [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)in St Pete or Citrus County. Not that there are not pockets, like Old Homosassa, but is mostly Queens/Long Island south.
My theory is that when racists move here, they feel they can be more open about it because they think it is more accepted. One thing I have noticed, rural southerners tend to be more sexist than the mountain west ( Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico). For example, I had an uncle who was an great cook or all of my nieces killed their first deer when they were about ten. That freaks the rednecks out for some reason. But then this is the place that has hunting regulations that allow baiting and using dogs for deer, or why Wyoming game wardens can patrol larger areas of wilderness lightly or unarmed (that used to amaze as a kid. Been stopped on a dirt road ten miles from pavement and thirty miles from the nearest house by an unarmed guy in red shirt and jeans knowing that we had guns), while the ones in Florida look like city cops. That actually shocked me. It made me wonder if there were that many meth labs or are poachers more violent here.