I think you have your timeline all fucked up- Cobb was in Leith at the very height of the boom. Leith doesn't have much oil and is too dry to farm- this is marginal ranch land- and has never had much economic activity- there is a reason only 24 people live there. It is too far east for oil and too far west to get much rain.
Indeed, you have just acknowledged that white supremacists are a dying breed and -- logic would dictate that they not a suitable talking point as a retort when countering someone pointing to the worldwide threat of Islamic jihadism.
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Looks like he moving on to Antler ND
You made my day, Charles.