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It's different in Montana now:

Kirn's essay might be called Montana-Romantic, lamenting the loss of an era when cowboys errant drunk-drove to a smoke-filled bars, which for Kirn existed about fifteen years ago when he arrived here. He has a point: one recent travelogue in a glossy lifestyle magazine compared Kirn's hometown of Livingston as Brooklyn to Bozeman's Manhattan. You couldn't write that fifteen years ago.

So despite much recent commentary, Montana has never been susceptible to being stamped "blue" or "red" or any other label-of-the-day no matter how much ink is spilled in trying. It always has been a vibrant swirl of prospectors and bankers, homesteaders and stockmen, union and company men, journalists and cowboys, naturalists and lumberjacks, and always will be. That should come as some consolation to a Montana Romantic.

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