population lives to the east of the dead zone. And of course, north of us, you have the Oklahoma Panhandle, that strip of land that used to be part of Texas, but when Texas entered the Union, they wanted to be a slave state, but slavery wasn’t allowed north of that parallel. So they just lopped off that strip, and for decades, it didn’t belong to anybody. For years, they didn’t even have laws there. It was like The Purge.”
