The speaker seems to have encountered a new/diverse group of people in Fayetteville, where there is a lot of contention between certain groups, but also notes the diversity they encountered in NJ, so it this tenseness a new thing they're experiencing in Fayetteville? If so, what does this say about the views of both places?

These lines demonstrate the concept of a borderland, which is a physical or figurative that can both serve as a divide or an area of hybridity. This specific use echoes themes in "The Homeland", in which the border between the Americans and Mexicans has become a harmful area of hybridity, one culture suffering from the other. The poem exhibits the possible harm that can come from their meeting.

Question: What does the anarchy represent to society? (Symbolic for something beyond religion?)

Observation: Jesus is replaced by a monster in the second coming