Western states like California, Oregon, Washington have always been libertarian, not conservative, that is why they were in time, absorbed by the left.
Many Southern and western states like Texas have always been conservative, that is why they have managed to best resist the leftwing/libertarian gains of the last 60 years, and in many ways managed to roll back some of them and even move right.
The tiny, pure white, western states that counted their population by the thousands, have managed to have a good thing, but now as post 2 shows, the world is moving in, and as this case shows, Californiafication is already taking hold unless it is resisted by the conservatives in those states.
Montana can adopt this new leftwing agenda that is coming there for the welfare and to make a living in the drug/crime culture, and have OJ Simpson juries, or they can try and fight.
Touray Cornell is a problem, not a symbol of freedom and preserving traditional America.