Here might be a good start for you: https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Open_Game_Systems#Open_Game_License
Just because of the nature of those games, I would speculate that the page above is just a fraction of what is available.
It's where 10 extremely burley men take turns trying to pull a church as far as they can. It's the official state sport of Tennessee and it's usually fun for the whole family. The winner doesn't get much for a winning prize, but does have the option to become a principal at the highschool of his choosing.
The women's events usually involve pulling small barns.
There are fields of cars you can choose from, actually.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-china-ev-graveyards/
Of course! I was super curious myself.
Teachers generally want to teach so I have had great success reaching out to various people like that.
I don't abuse that, of course. Keeping questions short and being respectful of their time is a huge plus, in my experience.
Statistics suck. It's not because they might be inaccurate, it's because they are so easy to misinterpret. "Per capita" is wildly misunderstood or ignored. It's all about presentation, IMHO.
Number-fuck example:
- Only 5% of the US population is _____ so it's irrelevant.
- There are 16.7 million people in the US that are _____ and presents a massive problem.
Same numbers, different context.
There is a bit more to that study if you read into it better. Studies that are well done attempt to exclude personal bias which doesn't make for an exciting read. While I sarcastically agree with the hypothesis, it's not the result of the paper. (Some correlation may still be measurable and presented, but that doesn't make the hypothesis statistically significant.)
However, to our knowledge, no lesion work has yet directly examined the link between dlPFC damage and political ideology.
Specifically, we examined ideological extremity on general, social, and economic dimensions both as the absolute distance from the ideology scale midpoint and separately for those on the left versus right on the ideology scale. However, we failed to observe any statistically significant associations between lesion type and any of the indicators of ideological extremity, .....
We all need to be careful when presenting studies. I didn't even do a proper level of diligence with this one, TBH. Studies need to be repeated by independent teams, sources need to be verified and sample sizes need to be taken into account. It takes time consuming work to accurately use a study in a discussion.
I could agree with that. Even though I wrote quite a bit about my own experiences in this post, I still had to add some subtle caveats that were intended to imply things that you said as well.
Rural areas can have wildly different cultures even if they are just a few miles apart. Some can lean left and some can lean right. It does tend to lean more right the further south of the Mason-Dixon line you get, though. There is a correlation to poverty tucked in there as well.
While it's true to say that there is typically more crime in southern states that are mostly right leaning, it's a misleading statement and not completely accurate when you look at all states.
Those are my thoughts as well. The data on the chart starts to get "broken" between states like North Carolina and Tennessee, for example. The chart would be a bit more clear if the numbers were shown at the country level and not just by state.
There is a loose correlation across states that are typically red and states that are typically blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate
I can speak about the mountains of North Carolina and the surrounding areas. My stomping grounds were between two tiny towns, Andrews and Murphy. Look it up on a map if you would like. It's probably similar but also extremely different to other places. This is my experience alone but it may give context to any other comments.
Let's talk about politics first.
From my perspective, and where I grew up, poorer and fairly isolated populations tend to be a little less educated and extremely religious. They are vulnerable to manipulation by religion and politics because both are heavily connected. It's a cycle that is taught and passed down through families, to be honest.
Politics that focus on blaming others for their misfortunes seems to work really well. It's super easy to blame issues on people and cultures they have never met since all they know is what they have been told.
Education plays a role, but not a huge one. Teachers of the local schools likely grew up in the same area. Heavily biased discussions of religion and politics in schools is fairly normal as well. (One of my science teachers constantly reminded us that evolution was evil, but he had to at least mention it by law.)
Crime is an interesting thing. Drug and alcohol abuse may be rampant in smaller communities. It's just that there is nothing better to do than get fucked up and breed. With drug addiction comes crime. It's worse because jobs are already limited and many people are at or below poverty to begin with. At least in my old town, murders we uncommon but cases of domestic abuse, robbery and other crimes were astronomical. When crystal meth showed up on the scene in the late 90's, it was like adding gasoline to a fire that was nearly out of control to start with. A good number of my highschool classmates either didn't survive or are probably still in jail.
Edit: I was a fairly extreme alcoholic for a number of years and started drinking very early in my life. I quit that shit though and I absolutely blame it on how I grew up.
There is a commonality between most of the people as most of them don't want to leave where they grew up. Sure, many of them do go out in the world for a bit, but most of them just go right back home.
People who leave that life tend to be more educated, maybe have a little more money and will generally completely reject anything from their past, especially religion and politics. (Oh. That last bit was easy to describe because its me and a very tiny circle of people I grew up with. We are spread across the country though, so we really don't talk much anymore.)
It's weird though. Through all the bullshit, I still kinda miss the place. There is nothing in the world quite like being miles away from society and in the middle of the woods. Where I grew up was an extremely beautiful place, society excluded.
So. I intended that to be a neutral analysis, but it probably never could've been. Hopefully, it gave you a partial answer to your question.
Edit 2: Sorry about the wall-o-text. I could probably write a book about this stuff since I hardly scratched the surface of your question. There are many layers to this, from an insiders view anyway.
There are other licenses listed besides the OGL. Good feedback though.