I live in Alabama. We’re parceled off by zip code pretty well. Intellectual acuity, well, that’s another matter.
You want a number of like minded folks close by, IMO. You don’t want to be alone out in the boonies. The more folks in your community, the larger the groups you’ll be able to defend against. We have about 200 like minded families in my little community, near a small town. Not far away are those who think differently. But they know we’re not going to tolerate what has been going on in larger cities.
I hope to be there by Saturday afternoon!