My girlfriend grew up in a rural area outside Lansing and is a Michigan grad. We went up for the game last fall and made a long weekend of it, We stayed in Lansing before the game so we could visit a little of her family that still lived in the area. We met her cousin and her husband at a pizza joint in her home town. It was the kind of place desperately trying to spruce up the old downtown to attract younger families. They had a couple blocks of pizza joints, breweries, bars, etc. We parked, turned the corner down the main street, and it was alternating Trump and US flags the whole two blocks on both sides of the street. It looked like the 4th of July...Err...Jan 6th with bunting and everything. The day after the game we drove over to Grand Haven, on Lake Michigan. The entire drive across the lower part of the state looked like a Trump parade. I told friends when I got home Harris was in Trouble and it turned out I was right.
I don't know what the hell I'm going to do about retirement. I want out of Texas, too...but the affordable states with the outdoor lifestyle I want are just as red as Texas.