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THE GRAY MOUNTAIN STATE
National Review ^
| 8 December 2009
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 12/07/2009 9:42:05 PM PST by JLS
As longtime readers know, the Demographic Deathwatch is not a novelty dance craze but a recurring feature of this column. But its not just for Europe, Russia, China, and Japan anymore! Some parts of America are acquiring demographic profiles that would qualify them for EU membership.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; usdemographics
Steyn talks demographics again, this time US demographics.
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posted on
12/07/2009 9:42:06 PM PST
by
JLS
To: knews_hound
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posted on
12/07/2009 9:42:48 PM PST
by
JLS
To: JLS
I spent a lot of time in Vermont in the 60’s and early 70’s, it was NH with taxes. You could drink and drive, but you had to go to Littleton, NH for beer on Sundays.
Guns everyone had one or twelve, the place was great. In 1970 the hippies built a commune in Island Pond and the State went down the outhouse.
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posted on
12/07/2009 10:00:42 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
To: JLS
Vermont is a piece of stagnant garbage. Least religious state in the union. Least family friendly state. One of the most heavily taxed.
Very little good about the state aside from the natural beauty. And the perverts, hippies, and faux-swank little urbanites with their little village dreams have all but ransacked the historical beauty and significance of the place by distoring their significance.
It’s a pretty exterior all but ruined by its inhabitants.
To: Little Bill
Don’t worry. Once the hippies ruin Vermont they will move to other states and ruin them too. They are a cancer.
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posted on
12/07/2009 10:37:45 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
To: JLS
“Which is to say that Vermont, literally, has no future.”
Good riddance.
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posted on
12/08/2009 2:50:51 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: JLS
When he ran for president, Howard Dean was said to have inspired Americas youth. In Vermont, he mainly inspired them to move somewhere else. The number of young adults fell by 20 percent during the Dean years. And whats left is a demographic disaster: The states women have the second lowest birthrate in the nation, and the states workforce is already Americas oldest.To hell with the libs.....
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:13:09 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: volunbeer
This is already. Part of the problem, notice I wrote ‘part’, with New Hampshires shift to the Left is the migration of the dope smoking diaspora over the river from VT into NH.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:25:04 AM PST
by
MSF BU
(++)
To: JLS
Another excellent column by Mark Steyn.
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posted on
12/08/2009 6:53:31 AM PST
by
MSF BU
(++)
To: JLS; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
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posted on
12/08/2009 8:26:48 AM PST
by
knews_hound
(Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
To: knews_hound
I know it is hard to believe but I actually do have a life outside of FR :);) Thanks, knews_hound.
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posted on
12/08/2009 8:41:14 AM PST
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
To: MaggieCarta
Well, I didn’t say it was much of a life ;)
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posted on
12/08/2009 8:58:57 AM PST
by
knews_hound
(Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
To: knews_hound
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posted on
12/08/2009 9:39:27 AM PST
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
To: CaspersGh0sts
Very little good about the state aside from the natural beauty Wanna pack heat? No license, registration or permit required. Weird I know.
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posted on
12/08/2009 11:20:58 AM PST
by
AFreeBird
(Going Rogue in 2012)
To: JLS
Vermont is the way liberals think America ought to be, and you cant make a living in it. To an extent, however, THEY can. There are still jobs for politicians, bureaucrats, activists and tenured faculty. A liberal's dreamland.
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posted on
12/08/2009 4:40:35 PM PST
by
irv
(Live Tea or die!)
To: JLS
“In European terms, homosexuals are Vermonts Muslims”
heh, heh.
The brilliant Steyn manages to crawl under the skin of both demos.
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posted on
12/09/2009 11:10:51 AM PST
by
dervish
(I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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