Colorado is calling.
I haven't spent much time in Nashville, but I've only heard good things from friends that moved there after college.
Weather was great this time of year at least.
We're also full.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/native
Is there a reason you raised the issue of race? Does my race matter? If so, I'd just LOVE to see you explain why.
>> Native? Which tribe are you from?
Then you wrote:
>> You don't get to lay an exclusive claim on the arbitrarily defined geopolitical unit on the basis that you happened to be born there.
Why won't you just tell the truth: you don't like it when some people lay an exclusive claim to a geographical unit on the basis that they were born there, but you're fine when other people do it, provided YOU get to make the rules a la: "Native? Which tribe are you from?".
BTW, there's a word for what you're doing. It starts with H.
And no, I don't believe that Native Americans have such rights, either. But since you sounded like you believe that you do, it was a comparison that practically begged to be made.
This "OMG! Other people! The horror!" mentality is part of the reason why places like LA (and Boulder, in Colorado) get so expensive in the first place. If you do density right, it keeps prices down, and requires less driving because you can put a lot of smaller businesses in the middle of dense areas and have them be successful, and also walk/bike to them. It requires a substantial rethink of our zoning though.
Until then, the entire state is not your backyard, thankfully.
And it should go without saying, but there's no natural right for things around you to remain exactly like they have always been. Although you do, of course, have a natural right to free speech to grumble about how they change.