Kidd Commander!

Yeah, unfortunately. But that line is also talking about how people who are different do often EXIST in surprising numbers in “backwards” places like small rural towns, they just don’t feel comfortable enough to be open about it since they feel like they’re the only ones. So what you end up with are a bunch of closeted people (queer, neurodivergent, atheist or whatever your deal is) who COULD be forming a support network for each other who stay feeling alienated, and the public in the places they live in stays feeling like an oppressively homogeneous entity. It feels too scary and useless to visibly be yourself, so nobody sees anyone else they can relate to, so nobody deviates from the norm, so nothing changes.

The South is a lot more diverse than people think, basically.