That’s a pretty rural area. National forest, camping, rivers, fishing, hiking, etc. We drove through there just a few days ago en route from the OR coast to Bend, OR. It’s not the kind of place you think you’d find a large contingent of ROP types.
Yes, I’ve been there many times. Beautiful country.
Welfare lets them live anywhere; they aren’t in Minneapolis for the jobs...
Although in the 1980s that area did have a weird cult in its midst... remember Bagwan Shree Rajneesh? True, not the same thing, but it’s not a leap in logic to imagine a cluster of ROP types somewhere.