He is someone who is well spoken, confident, and earned my respect with direct, sane answers to absurd questions about unnamed persons who might be offended by what he's doing.
I live in Missouri. Lots of the beautiful small towns were founded by Germans, except in the Ozarks, which was inhabited by the Scots-Irish. Fortunately better people have moved in in the last 30 years and improved the place, which has great natural beauty anyway.
Missouri is not bad. Low taxes, concealed carry, pretty libertarian place. It's even legal to hitchhike on the interstates, which I did as a teen.