“Missoula is not your typical Montana town. ”
Curious what this means? Thanks
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You mean they have more than one stoplight?? Yes, @thecarpathian , yes they do. (Unlike the town in Montana that I grew up in.) |
It’s a college town (U of M) and a tad more progressive, @grannyring . I remember in 2016 after I finished cleaning my Dad’s house out after he died, I decided to go a bit out of my way and take the scenic route back, and I stopped in Seeley Lake (Mt.) for lunch and the menu was featuring all these "organic" dishes, and I asked the proprietor/waitress if that was due to the proximity to Missoula, and she kind of snorted and said something to the effect of, "We don’t care what those hippies in Missoula think." |
. . . I remember a while back ago I watched an episode of Dateline in which a home owner’s (in Missoula) garage had been burglarized previously. At the time, there was kind of a thing going on in Missoula where apparently the local high school kids would go out at night and enter people’s garages (if they were left open) and do minor pilfering of beer and what not. Anyway, some kids made the mistake of going into the homeowner’s (who I referred to above) garage which he had left open again and set up with a motion detector and alarm and then lay in wait with a (I think ) a Mossberg Model 500 and he blasted one of the kids a couple of time. The kid was unarmed and the homeowner was charged and convicted as the jury apparently decided that it was a premeditated ambush, and I think I remember that he (the homeowner) got a pretty lengthy sentence. (It did turn out that the boy who was killed was not involved in the previous burglary.) Anyway, @grannyring , I remember thinking to myself that if that had happened in certain other Montana towns, he may not have been convicted or even charged. |
@grannyring , I think another way to explain that would be by looking at the results of the last presidential election. In Missoula County the democratic ticket won 59% to 37% for the republican ticket. However, overall in Montana, it was R 58.39% to D 38.46%. I’d also say that by and large, Montana is an agricultural state east of the foothills, and I don’t think the economy of Missoula is based on agriculture. The agricultural culture (no alliteration intended) as opposed to to the not agricultural culture. |
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