A place to renew patriotism [A Texan Discovers New England]

Startlegram ^ | 12-6-13 | Richard Greene

[basil]

You have a point, there—that’s for sure.

[Fiji Hill]

This is a much better song about the Bay State.

Massachusetts--Gene Krupa & His Orchestra (with Anita O'Day), 1942

[x]

The whole country is different from what it was 200 or 100 or 50 years ago.

Whatever there is to complain about in New England is already present in other parts of the country or coming there fast.

[Sparky1776]

Old Cape Cod - Patti Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6mdiFvyqCc

[Sparky1776]

“...............is already present in other parts of the country or coming there fast.”

There is big difference between a Massachusetts native and the college crowd in Boston & Cambridge - most of those nuts come from states outside of Mass and many from around the Globe.

[Gay State Conservative]

Collins,Snowe and Romney...although *very* far from perfect...don't deserve to be listed among the other filthy pieces of Rat droppings you mentioned.

[caddie]

I was there.

Have a bunch of pictures still on my cell phone of that day.

Was a decent crowd, maybe 2000, but people came and went over the hours. I remember they were using handheld megaphones... no dais or amplifiers, it was totally grass roots.

There's no way to 'certify' it but I believe it was one of the first Tea Party meetings ever.

Maybe the first.

[Sparky1776]

Battleship Massachusetts

[elcid1970]

Last time I was in Texas was flight school at Fort Wolters in 1971 (next stop Vietnam). Hope I can see the Alamo & the other patriotic sites in Texas now that I’m retired.

As for New England, fuggedabouddit!

[Dysart]

Gorgeous. Almost brings frozen tears to me eyes.

[Fiji Hill]

New England has some sites of interest to conservatives.

• Plymouth Notch, Vt. has changed little since Calvin Coolidge lived there. In Coolidge's home, you can visit the parlor where his father swore him in as president in 1923. Up until a few years ago, the Coolidge family operated a cheese factory nearby which offered cheese for sale to visitors.

• On my last visit to the region, I also visited New Hampshire, where I saw the Ballot Room at the Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, where in presidential years, the first ballots on Election Day are cast at midnight. Just about every presidential candidate visits the hotel during a presidential election year.

• Conservatives visiting New Hampshire might also want to visit the site where the Manchester Union Leader was once located and stand on the spot where the political career of Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Me.) crashed and burned when he broke down and cried amidst a tirade against the paper's publisher, the outspoken conservative William Loeb.

[Sparky1776]

Caddie, a slideshow from that day including the 2nd rally on the waterfront: http://www.flickr.com//photos/real_bostonian/sets/72157616871560884/show/

[Sparky1776]

http://www.flickr.com//photos/real_bostonian/sets/72157616871560884/show/

[Sparky1776]

“As for New England, fuggedabouddit!”

Yep - that’s why the enemy is winning there and elsewhere.

[x]

Leaving aside for a minute the question of just how different New England is from other parts of the country -- New York, Maryland-DC, Denver, the West Coast, Hawaii -- the political correctness and general bossiness aren't that different from Western Europe -- Scandinavia, Holland, Britain -- and probably not as bad.

So you have trends at work in the Western World that go beyond any legacy of New England Puritanism. Today's Vermont, say, is more a product of being the place where trust-fund kids and would-be artists and activists go to not grow up, than of anything left over from John Winthrop and Cotton Mather and (even though Winthrop was John Kerry's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather).

New England wasn't like it is today back in my grandparents' day, when people worked in textile mills and shoe factories or on fishing boats, when today's rich suburbs were still dairy or asparagus farms, when thrifty Yankee farm wives threw fits over broken dishes, and all the buildings looked like they needed a new coat of whitewash. It was increased affluence that made the changes, and affluence may be coming your way, too, if it hasn't got there already. Well, affluence and the fact that in such small states you could never get far enough away from Harvard.

[SamAdams76]

Texans should not be so cocky.

Over 40% of them voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012. They are not as far away as they might thing from becoming another blue state and every year, more ready-made Democrats pour over their borders.

In fact, as a whole, New England is probably just as conservative than Texas. Once you get outside the big cities and the limousine suburbs of Boston and NYC, people tend to be mostly conservative.

[trisham]

Agreed. I live in a very conservative area.

[No One Special]

One of the world's more beautiful spots but it wasn't like this on April 19, 1775:

[RaceBannon]

Conservative leadership??
In Boston?
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[Daffynition]

Heh. Groton [and New London] are the armpits of Connecticut.