Regional Info

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The NDN casinos are not on reservations, but they are on tribal land. Not at all the same thing. There are a few here in OR - none that close to me, maybe 1.5 hours away? Not my thing, when I've gone to casinos I've been bored, mostly. The only thing I'd really be interested in would be poker, and I'd get eaten alive at even the kindest of casinos.

Is every major Montana city on tribal land? I have to assume it is just legal to run a casino in Montana anywhere you damn well please based on where they are... everywhere. Most of them also have a liquor store in them, making me think there's some crossover in licensing. I think I only saw one liquor store that wasn't also a casino.

 

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I would be far more favorable towards casinos in Montana if they were on tribal land and benefitted the tribes. That's not what I've seen.

As much as I like freedom and the right for adults to decide for themselves, I think casinos in the middle of every city is bad for everyone.

I can only imagine that because the economy in these cities is depressed they decided to add some juice with casinos. These casino serve the poorest sector of the community and make life worse for those people.

You can see the effects of meth all over Montana. I'm not being snarky or exaggerating. Montana is largely part of the meth wasteland that has spread across most of rural U.S..

I hear the song "Try That in a Small Town" and I can't help but hear "try meth in a small town" because as much as that major city person wants to elevate small towns that he never lived in, meth is the reality in small U.S. towns. Outside of major metropolitan areas the U.S. has become a meth wasteland. Small towns are meth towns.