Lol. Montana isn’t the mid-west, it’s the west. Everyone I know who has moved here from big cities is super right. The lefties I know are mostly homegrown from the Missoula area or associated with one of the universities. Montana is lurching hard right, but with a libertarian undertone (weed, guns, gambling all good to go). Montana is large, rural and full of tough, self-reliant people. The winters run the weak out of here. I know plenty who have left after one winter.
I do agree with you that this policy is a bad idea though!
I grew up here, left for Portland in the late 1990s after graduating from MSU, and just returned last year because Portland has finally been destroyed and I wanted to get back with people whose politics align with mine. Loving it back in eastern MT.
Do they have any stores up there? A movie theater? Or any entertainment at all. Unless you are outdoorsy, they don’t have much to do? I heard no internet or cable. I guess working the farms doesn’t allow time for much else. The mail comes how often? Every three weeks? I just can’t imagine. But that’s why I’m in Florida.
Bozeman???