Tiffany Langford's family has successfully navigated work and life in an active war zone for decades. She grew up in the Mormon colonies in Chihuahua and Sonora during the height of the drug war, a time when the violence in those regions outstripped the death tolls in Iraq and Afghanistan. Local police and government forces were thoroughly infiltrated by the cartels and could not be trusted.
Despite all that, she describes an idyllic rural childhood. We discuss:
- Thriving in a politically and geographically inhospitable environment
- The role of American media and military power in protecting the colonies
- The freedom that comes with state decline
- Homeschooling and community building
