Nah. I lived in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee. We were hicks. Two hours from Nashville and a million miles from the rest of the world.
NC means North Carolina, right? I lived in Durham, for a while. When I was there, there must have been every bit of 12 people who lived there. Now, I hear there's about 312,000, and crime is rampant.
I know what you mean about fears for our children. This is not the America I bargained for.
I wouldn't know where to go to find the true America, today. Born in Louisville, grew up in Indiana. But lived all over.
The closest I ever got to MN was when I lived in Michigan. The UP is nice, there.
You might try central Missouri. I was born in CA, family from CT, Army brat, so lived all over the world, husband from Virginia, we've lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Houston, TX, Maryland, etc. You couldn't pay me to move back to any of them. The only thing I don't like about Missouri is it has a state income tax, and a bunch of liberals in KC and St. Louis. If we could make those two cities secede, Missouri would be perfect.
Carolyn