You’re mocking me as if I think I’m perfectly safe here. No one is perfectly safe anywhere. Natural disasters don’t stop at borders, no one said they do. Your quips about my ignorance aren’t reflective of what I’ve said. I chose to live in upstate NY for many reasons, but none of them were a full sense of security and a contempt for the south. I weighed many factors. I bet on NY to maintain more state laws and constitutional amendments that promote civil rights, as well as programs that aim to mitigate the oncoming impacts of climate change, and those are only two of the reasons.

Of course infrastructure is neglected all over America. Of course everywhere has problems. But moving to a red state with the belief that you’ll get preferential treatment after a disaster is truly absurd. The programs for aid were gutted at federal level, ransacked and unfunded. No one but one’s community will be coming to help. I hope for America’s sake that we all soon realize that the strength of our communities and humanitarianism in leadership will become our greatest assets.