Whither do you flee when the county to which you fled needs fleeing? This is the uncomfortable question more than
a few Johnson County, Kansas, residents find themselves asking.
The destination of choice was inevitably Johnson County. Our friends had good reason to be embarrassed. For years they had been telling us how the supposedly staid, stuffy, homogenous county to our west offended their hip, inclusive, progressive values.
Many of the Kansas City refugees have refused to assimilate. To make sure everyone knows where they stand, they post yard signs that explain in fulsome detail the things “this house believes in” that the neighbors presumably don’t. If still feeling guilty about abandoning Kansas City, these migrants run for things such as school board.
A year ago, their newly imported values clashed with indigenous Johnson County values at Shawnee Mission North High School.
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