I got invited by a customer to make a trip to Texas about a year, or two years ago.
Right about the time it was all in the news, about the battles over removing old confederate statues, they had a contract to take a statue down in texas, and couldn't get anyone local to touch it, none of them wanted their crane on the site, for fear of vandalism, news pictures, or such from either side. I was super busy at the time, they would have rented the crane, and just wanted me to come down and operate it for them, and run the small project. I didn't have time for even messing with it.
I could see the local crane outfits not wanting to touch it, I think its silly for them to take down the statues. Its a memorial to guys who gave everything, for what they thought was right, no matter what our current political problems/ correctness says about them. I was glad I was too busy, and that I wasn't so hungry that I needed to think about doing it. Somebody else got paid to take it down.
Somebody is going to do your road project, I would be like cm1995- the bigger question (for me)would be can I make $ on the project. I don't have deep enough pockets to bond a huge state project, and its not my gig at all, but if you are set up to do something like that, I wouldn't let local opinions change my mind on a project. State $ is state $, and they are going to turn it loose for bids, its going to get done even if people are against it.
I've been involved in some projects where people were upset about what was going on, I'm not going to get into a argument with anyone on a jobsite, I'll let the sheriff sort that out.