Their town was ‘Almost Heaven.’ Residents say a proposed Buc-ee’s tore it apart.

Residents of Palmer Lake, Colo., have been in a fight since Buc-ee’s, a Texas-based chain, proposed becoming a part of their town. NBC News; Rachel Woolf for NBC News; GettyA plan for a Buc-ee’s gas station made their Colorado town the poster child of the nation’s fracturing civil discourse.