I hope you are able to realize how the way you've gone about saying this is just a little bit offensive to Southerners. While the conservative stronghold down here is a problem, they're only a part (not even really a majority) of our society. Furthermore, I'm getting really sick and tired of people acting like my home is a problem to be gotten rid of.
I kinda' empathize with cutting the area loose. Or at least parts of it. Not sure if you came from one of the areas that actually
aren't 90+% non-negligibly violent (did you know my most recent college class was able to cite at
least three or four major race fights in schools they've been in, in the last 10-20 years? And we're not talking small brawls -- we're talking dozens on each side, happening in different schools, different areas, etc. It's still a goddamn problem.),
viciously corrupt (we're talking dodge federal investigations into pedophilia corrupt, here.), bigots, but... I did. Florida would be better off if my home town and most of the surrounding area mysteriously vanished into the aether. I dig people thinking my home is a problem to be gotten rid of,
because it is.
Also understand that a lot of the area isn't exactly like that, and it tends to get better as you go further north (or further south -- mid/south florida is a
seriously different place). Still. Too much is. Not something I'd actually advocate, but there's definitely days I half wish someone would just firebomb this hellhole and put all of us out of everyone else's misery. Rather we just improve things than cut it loose, but... it
tempts.