It didn't offend me at all. I'm already a southerner, though, lived in NC all my life, so I am used to living among lots of people I don't necessarily agree with on political/religious matters since I am your basic tree-hugging liberal. I grew up in an academic & theater family, and since my parents' friends were also in academia or theater, I never felt out of the mainstream until I went to high school and realized that we were "different" from a lot of other folks in the same city.

But even in the south, if you choose your communities carefully, you can find lots of like-minded people. I have a feeling the folks who would move to a car-free city, no matter in which state it happened to be, would be a bit out of the mainstream. Lots of tree-huggers, I suspect.