I moved from Seattle to Kentucky. I know it’s not technically “the south”, but man, what a difference. I feel like I’ve gone back in time 50 years in a lot of very, VERY good ways.
I honestly don’t know how I’d be handling what’s been happening the last few years if I were still in Seattle. I’d probably want to move to KY. :-)
Can’t a posse lock up Mitch next time he gets back to Ky.?
To illustrate the difference in life, even only 50 miles away from HotLanta (ugh), I sent in my tag registrations I got in the mail. One day I got a call from Doris over at the tag office. She said I forgot to put my insurance company on the form and asked me what it was. I told her and I got the stickers in the mail the next day. THAT NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN COBB COUNTY - EVER.
Years later one of them in the tag office asked me when I bought my explorer....long story short, there was a law that allowed my car to be eligible for a one time ad valorem tax payment (which was paid in the sales tax) and my $250 tag bill went down to $18. He just told me to go home and get the bill of sale. My tax bill for that car is now $18 for the tag forever.
Similar story for renewing my CCW. Walked into the probate clerk's office and the lady asked me "What you looking for honey?" I told her and she put me through the steps, sent me over to the jail to get my fingerprints and NICS check and I was back in less than a half hour. By the time I got there she'd stamped, had the judge sign and laminate the card for me....about 45 minutes. In Cobb county it took two months and having to negotiate through about 5 a$$holes to do it. The moral of this is your life gets so much easier when you get as far away from officious government a$$holes as you can.
I visit up North in Kentucky sometimes and I do enjoy my time there. I consider Kentucky to be Southern, or at least most of it and it is part of the SEC.
Don’t tell Kentucky regular people they aren’t southern
They bristle
Hobnobs at Browns in Louisville might think they are Midwestern
But drive over from Cincinatti to Covington and hear accents change and sweet tea becomes available and that big water tower with Y’all on it
Less than one percent KY voted for the tall bearded guy in 1860
And most of that was in the county of his birth
I know people in extreme southern Illinois and Indiana claim to be southern too and don’t talk yankee