> We’re mad that they keep trying to rule over us. Pot, meet kettle [not you specifically, but what you refer to as hinterland-dwellers]. Backing up Thomas's p

> We’re mad that they keep trying to rule over us. Pot, meet kettle [not you specifically, but what you refer to as hinterland-dwellers]. Backing up Thomas's point, in another comment, about Illinois regulating handguns: Here in Texas, the rural-dominated (GOP) state government is all about "local control" — until it comes to our big cities' doing things that they don't like, such as enacting plastic-bag bans, installing red-light cameras, banning fracking within city limits, or, most recently, imposing COVID-19-related mandates. The attitude seems to be, "You're not the boss of us — but we get to tell you what to do whenever we wish."