“What’s happened to ya NH?”
What happened to us you ask? Well the Mass-hole invasion over the past 40+ years along with other New England staters coming to NH for the “Tax Free” lifestyle but bringing their lib politics.
Then there is the radicalization of the major colleges.
This place was great 20, 30 years ago ... now we are just like the rest of NE.
I read an article a few years back that stated it was not so much the Massholes who moved here bringing their politics with them. In fact most of the former MA residents who moved to NH did so to escape the MA liberal policies and taxes that the hated.
In Fact, it was the people who retire to their lakefront house in the middle part of the state who are more Liberal. Then they start complaining about their high property taxes on the million dollar lakefront house.
So, it is not the people who live in Rockingham and Hillsborough counties. It is not the commuter who drives down to northern Mass to work everyday but lives in NH. It is not the blue collar people who live in the upper part of the state.
The problem is the kids who live around UNH in Durham and all the people working in the UNH system. It is all the people who work in Concord for the state government. It is the people who work and go to school at Keene State. It is the people who live and work around Big Green in Hanover.
It is the person from CT or NY or that retired to their house on the big lake. They bought that house 20 years ago for $300-500K. Now it is worth $1.5 million and they are taxed heavily by the towns those houses reside in. They are the people that vote for Dems.
FYI, I moved here in 1985 from WNY. I voted for one Democrat in my 34 years in NH.
[[This place was great 20, 30 years ago]]
Yes it certainly was- which is why i asked- sad that it has gone so liberal- Maine has been influenced by Mass immigrants too- New England used to be an awesome place to live and grow up- and very conservative- and independent-