“Live Free or Die”, isn’t that the expression no longer believed by the people of NH?
Steyn, in his speech, recognizes that New Hampshire is not as free as it once was:
I looked at the rankings in Freedom in the 50 States published by George Mason University last month. New Hampshire came in Number One, the Freest State in the Nation, which all but certainly makes it the freest jurisdiction in the Western world. Which kind of depressed me. Because the Granite State feels less free to me than it did when I moved there, and you always hope there's somewhere else out there just in case things go belly up and you have to hit the road.