No drive-by shootings, no areas that white people won't go into after dark, no little kids being caught in crossfire. So it doesn't seem serious to most people here. I know what a problem it can be, but even there I did not lock the doors of my car or my condo, because I stayed away from the Southeast area. People in Washington D.C. deal with far different problems than most of the rest of us. The crime there is very, very high, not even counting the members of Congress.
Pollution is a problem, transportation is a problem, homeless people are a problem.
What they don't deal with are the problems that my fellow South Dakotans deal with. Not being able to grow food to sell to support your family because of increasingly strict regulations regarding pesticides or ridiculously broad interpretations of wetlands laws. Not entirely - they are a product of their environment. When you are guaranteed a rather high income for at least the next six years, unemployment is nothing but a campaign speech. Many of us think that the salaries our people in Congress are paid are way too high.