Actually I do live in Texas, near Houston and I don’t feel safe. When our town was homogenis, I felt safe but now that lots of section 8 and sub-prime people have moved in I’m seeing thugish people in town. Gang graffiti too. In a new subdivision 5 minutes away a Katrina man killed his mom and grand mother. At the mall near where I live, one of these “divesity drones” stared me down and looked like he was ready to take a swing at me and I was just pushing my baby through the mall in her stroller! I want to move out of Texas to Montanna, Idaho or Wyoming or the Czech Republic for safety reasons.
Texans seem to hate such zoning as "elitist", so I have ZERO symphathy for those (not you Transformers, just folks I have encountered) who brag about the lack of zoning in much of Texas, then b-tch about the section 8ers moving in.