This idea of the government trying to think for us all the time really needs to end.
First, it didn't mention the Souther'n Cross, the Battleflag. We fly it, all over, down here. When we take an oath to seve in the military, in the back of our minds, there is always a part of us saying, and for the South. I served 23 years in the Marine Corps, retired as a Lt.Col., and I always carried a Battleflag under my helmet, so I could fight under our own flag James Webb, in "Fields of Fire", and Ann Coulter, in her book "How to talk to a Liberal, if you must", noted similar phenomenon.
Second, there was no mention of guns. We, Southrons, see guns as the great equalizer between us and a tyrannical Federal government. (and, yes, we do remember we were "out gunned" in our "Second War for Independence". Nevertheless, Southerners own, and carry, more guns, per capita, than any other population of the Untied States, with the possible exception of Alaskans. (Who consider the "Lower 48" as a different world, anyway.)
Thinking about Alaska, in my time there, I found more of a "Southern sentiment" there (20 years ago), than I have found in Dixie. Many of them have little use, for the government of a foreign power. I recall a very vibrant "Alaskan Independence movement".
Food for thought
Lourie Salley