Just returned from Bobartland. Looking at properties. I get back & there online I find the perfect property. Now I am on cortisol overload. A drink before noon. yelling a lot @ nobody. So I am now in the middle of real estate insanity.
But this is how the West Slope sees us.

We want to regulate everything.
Give their money to undeserving people who do not look like them.
Force them to get vaccines when they don't trust the government.
Made more money under the CONald.
Conald is a victim of persecution.
Sexual mutilation of children via gender reassignment procedures.
Looting.
They do support Israel as they don't like the Moslems. One guysaid "Kill 'em all. Let god sort 'em out."
They seem to have a huge hole when it comes to trust. It began with Nixon or maybe the Bay of Pigs. It was ok tho with Reagan via Iran/Contra because of ends justify the means logic. So many knew nothing concerning our CIA policies in Cental America & the genocide of Mayan peoples.
Abortion divides them from the uber religious & the soul or over government reach.
Open carry state. The guys pack'in seem to do it for bravado. They sort of have a swag about them. Like a pimp. Every mass shooting results in a run on ammo & guns.
When I was out here in the 1980s, there was little vegetarian affair. There is a Walmart so....

Feels good to see some like minded people again. Durango went BLUE, so we are getting closer.
The sheriff hired a cop of African descent, just as the first emancipated slaves became cowboys.
Assaults on Amer/Indian or Native America in the parks on payday have fallen precipitously.
There are still Mudders, but mostly in designated areas. Keep 'em confined or they will trash the entire eco system.
Still 3 cultures dominate. Euro/Native/Hispanic.
Tourists are fun to watch. They love our nation's parks.
No gay bar yet. But certainly not ultra threatening. Only one bar in Colorado has smoking permitted. He won in court under the "grandfathered" provision.
Meth is a problem. Clause in contracts address cooking meth on the premises

. Seems like a different country sometimes.

I am sure all of you learned folks know all of this but perhaps some living over by dare, do not. My take away is that the area has an outlaw tradition, not unlike when the west of the Mississippi was 1st opened up to unlimited influx of thousands of illegal refugees from Euro's perpetual wars & oppression. We know the result was a decimation of an entire people, who still here.
Well that is enough for now.