Just offering my observations. Also you are reacting just like a Texan who has been told the same thing.
I’m an outside eye who knows the tell-tale signs. NWA is full of liberals. If you live there or near there you may be too deep to notice it. But I came into town, saw all of the signs around town forbidding guns, the incognito Californians and I know what comes next.
NWA is Connecticut just before Malloy was elected. Watch it. It’s actually why I’m not moving there. The place is taking the same line that the New England states took.
My son lives there. He’s an open-carrier.