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Lol I figured, was just funny. And absolutely. My family has been in Montana for a long time, and also has roots in Colorado, and it’s very similar, with the exception that Colorado is about 20-30 years further down the path of losing its regional identity.
Comment by WorldDirt at 02/02/2025 at 19:25 UTC
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Yep, Colorado’s had a rough last couple of decades. But another thing to think about are some the places those transplants are coming from, they lost their identity too. I lived on the east coast for a bit, and the Bostonians you see in Matt Damon movies? The guys with the thick accents and a family that’s lived there for a hundred years. They’re getting priced and pushed out of their city and state too. We’re all yearning for a past where they was more community and shared values. We need to figure out how to make that happen - Butte was a city of “transplants” at the end of the 19th century, and they became one of the strongest communities in the state.