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Don't you love these people who have never been to our states but feel free to trash them anyway? I get it all the time with Minnesota. Just because it's a "blue" state and in the North, that tells them all they need to know about it. After all, anyone who lives there must be crazy, right? Never mind that we might have good reasons for staying - family connections, high-paying jobs, an appreciation of winter (how am I supposed to go ice fishing in the South?), etc.

I'll Mr. Retired Army would be shocked to know that Massachusetts is actually a fairly low-tax state. How did that happen? 16 years of Republican governors, perhaps? But no Republican can be elected in Massachusetts, right? And if so, they'd be some RINO who would never cut taxes, right?

I understand completely where you're coming from. It's a pet peeve of mine, which is why I find myself defending your state despite having no connection to it.

Yup: likewise, I find it amusing when people who know nothing about my state, or have no connection to it, post like they're experts on it.