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One thing people who live in the EU or in Australia don't understand is that America is 3-4 different countries in a trenchcoat. Same way you can't judge every European the same or every Canadian the same. I would say the original KOTH is still applicable even today: A strangely homely mishmash of cultures slowly intruding in on one another and the awkward and uncomfortable feeling of not being able to really tell all of it to go away is very applicable to most of the United States outside of the major population centers.

This new KOTH seems to be targeted at everyone who once lived in that kind of town but population migration, huge business, massive, overreaching local government, and the rise of an extremely urban lifestyle brushed away the more community-focused culture of a small town and replaced it with something unfamiliar even to people who have been living through it. This is extremely common for small towns in Texas, which seem to be picking up the ball that California dropped with urban living (or walk off the plank, depending on which side of that argument you're on) to become its own immigration/industrial economic powerhouse.

With all of that, just brings all of the things that made California into California. Texas used to be the state that prided itself on not being California. Small government, lots of freedom, big trucks, all of the things that Hank prided himself on. Now just a shallow copy of a Coastal city. Hank's reaction is the reaction of everyone above the age of 30 living in Texas has had to the last 20 years