While I wouldn't want to say these people are representative of the state as a whole, it gets worse:

Gallatin GOP Women official says she 'would have shot' reporter Gianforte assaulted

http://helenair.com/news/politics/state/gallatin-gop-women-o...

We do have entertaining politics, much like everywhere else. That said, there's always a yin to the yang. https://www.hrc.org/blog/montana-governor-steve-bullock-sign...

Yeah, those far-right yahoos aren't anything like the people from Montana that I have known.

You realize that’s a world wide event, right?

Yes. I'm just saying the state is big enough for body slamming journalists and naked bike riding.

Well...the guy in question is fairly widely disliked in the state (I've met him a few times -- seemed ok but he believes the earth is 4k years old which is .... just weird). He was elected I think because a) many people vote Republican regardless (see Trump) and b) mail in votes had already been counted at the time and this is a state with a high proportion of mail in ballots. I really wouldn't take his actions as any example of the vibe in the state. He isn't from Montana fwiw. If you want an example of bad political vibe from Montana you'd be more on the mark with Zinke.

Probably just a reference mismatch: instead of the age of the universe, they might've meant its birth/inception around ~4k B.C. (E.).

Hey when you're off by 7 orders of magnitude it doesn't matter so much!

Engineering approximation..

This should be considered for sure. Texas anything was removed from my family's potential places list because of its hostility to women; my wife said in no uncertain terms that we would never be moving there.