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Dallas isn't much different.

Most large cities are not.

I have long said that the political divide in this country is not North v. South or Rich v. Poor, it is Urban v. Rural.

If you choose to live in a large city you want and need for your government to provide most of the necessities of life - water, sewer, police protection, transportation, etc.

If you choose to live in a rural area, you neither want nor need for your government to provide any of those services. You have a well for water, septic for sewer, guns for protection and drive your own vehicle wherever you need to go.

The different attitudes about guns is just an example. If you live in an apartment in NYC and you hear someone breaking in your door in the middle of the night you (1) hide in a back room, (2) call 911, (3) scream, and (4) hope that the police arrive in time. You don't have a gun, don't want a gun, and sure don't want your neighbor to have a gun since if he fires at an intruder it is just as likely to pass through your wall and hit you.

If you live in rural America and you hear someone breaking in your door in the middle of the night you get one of your guns and shoot him. You then (1) call your nearest neighbor to let them know what happened, to be on the lookout for any accomplices and to put out the word to your other neighbors, (2) call the Sheriff to notify him of the shooting, (3) put on a pot of coffee, and (4) sit out on the porch for an hour or so until a Sheriff's deputy arrives with the Justice of the Peace to confirm that the intruder is dead, take your statement over a cup of coffee, and make arrangements for the local funeral home to come and pick up the corpse the next day.