"Even home showings have become a politically sensitive issue. He recalled showing an elderly woman one property where there were Confederate flags at the gate and swastikas on the fish tank."
And this article did not even include how landlords can raise your rent by 50% or more if they like, so now it costs as much to rent a 1-bedroom apartment in small cities there as in large cities. And the obnoxious MAGA neighbors would force me out for sure.
> “The problem is, when we alienate protected classes, it sounds like a good sound bite, but you’ve got to remember those are people who spend money in our community,” he said. “For this pro-business, free state, I’m feeling it in the wallet, bad.”
My problem with this article is that there is SCANT discussion of Ms. Carter's "armadillo infestation".
I'm dying to know more about it! Can't insert Chekhov's gun in the first sentence and then never fire it! Curse you, NBC News!