seamusTX wrote:Indiana has fewer restrictions on licensed concealed carry than Texas -- including bars -- and offers a lifetime license (which is not good for NICS bypass). Outside of the northwest corner of the state, which is almost a suburb of Chicago, it is more like a southern state than any other north of the Ohio River.
-- Jim
Interesting that you say that. I was born and raised in southern Indiana, out in the sticks, joined the military, wandered around for about 20 years, end up in San Antonio for last couple assignments. The San Antonio area was the first place where I felt like it could be "home." The city of San Antonio felt more like a big town than a big city (which was a good thing). Every place else I lived, it was OK but I never felt any reason to stay there. So I retired here in S. Texas and moved to the Seguin area. I have not felt like I had any problem fitting in with the locals here.
One of the local gentlemen I work with in the fire department grew up in this area, but worked in Indiana on a fiber optic cable-laying job for some months. He said the Hoosier farmers he met were very much like the folks here, very friendly to him, and it was the one place outside of his home turf here in Texas he thought he could live if he had to.
So I find your comment noteworthy. As an aside, more than once I have had north eastern "yankees" ask if I was from the south -- altho I don't have near the countrified accent some of my fellow hillbilly Hoosiers have, I still sounded like a southerner to them...
