New Hampshire Blues (Why NH Is Turning Blue)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 27 October 2007 | ANDREW CLINE

[shrinkermd]

If the southern tip of New Hampshire, that part of the state closest to Boston, Mass., were to be split off and made into a separate state, which of the two New Hampshires would Republicans dominate?

Surprisingly, it would be the section full of Massachusetts transplants and which is sometimes derisively called "Massahampshire."

[shrinkermd]

At least in Minnesota those with some college and college seem to vote Pubbie more often than not; however, those with more than a college degree overwhelmingly vote RAT (at least 60/40)in most districts. It is the social issues, stupid!

[samtheman]

These newcomers have college degrees, many advanced, and work in high-tech, academia and other specialized fields throughout the state. They are affluent and very liberal.

I fit the category of affluent-college-degreed-high-tech worker, but that doesn't make me liberal. Somehow I lack the feeling-guilty-about-my-own-success-so-I-want-to-wreck-capitalism gene that so many of my affluent brethren obviously have.

[nmh]

I think allot of these “advanced degreed” folks are so indoctrinated to be liberals - it’s just natrual to VOTE liberal. Even the “hard” science folks are indoctrinated with evolution ... so the godless view of the world becomes a part of them. I would guess the age range is young too. Old folks like myself, weren’t so indoctrinated with liberal horse ****. I think you’ll find the boomer generation is mixed because indoctrination wasn’t so insane but as you exmaine people younger than the boomer generation it will be very Demoncrat.

[gusopol3]

Eurocrats

[Eagles Talon IV]

Those that believe liberalism is so grand best remember the saying “Be careful what you wish for because you may get it”. This is important because there is another saying, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged”

It won’t be long before the inevitable happens and those that were so enamored of the negotiating process with our enemies will be looking to their leaders for protection from the hoards and will find...the same wimps as always who will wring their hands and constantly check the wind direction before deciding what to do.

[Past Your Eyes]

They can say whatever they want about the southernmost part being the red part. Before these damn flatlanders started moving in, we didn’t have this problem. I don’t buy it.

[LibLieSlayer]

I think a lot of Republicans are turning blue up there too... lots of support for “blue” GOP candidates.

LLS

[ClearCase_guy]

I've lived in Mass. all my life and I think this article points out something interesting. Yes, Mass. is losing population. Yes, NH is becoming more Liberal. I had assumed that these two events were tied together -- Liberals from MA fleeing the destruction they had caused, and going to NH to start a new round of destruction. Perhaps, as this article points out, this is not quite the case.

I will say that MA -- which has been insane for decades -- has become markedly worse in the past 10-15 years. I think that the conservatives are indeed the one who are leaving, and the most egregiously Liberal folks are staying. This state just gets worse and worse.

[Republicanprofessor]

We call them “Massholes.” I hope I can use that word on FR.

They come into our small towns and need large, expensive community centers so their kids have a place to go. Our taxes go through the roof.

And, like most liberals, they don’t think things through when they vote in a knee-jerk liberal line.

[metesky]

The flatlanders have been moving in since the late forties.

[OCCASparky]

Someone forgot to tell that to the folks who voted 70/30 in Portsmouth who voted for Che-Porter.

Seriously tho, it IS people moving in from NY, VT, ME, and points further south rather than MA. A lot of these folks COMMUTE to Boston, but that's about all they want to do with the Boston socialists.

And don't worry about NH staying blue for too terribly long. 18 percent increase in the budget, increased tolls, repealing the parental notification law, gay marriage/civil unions, proposals to turn NH into a blue state, all these will combine to get Republicans (or at least what NH really stands for) out to the polls and vote out the Democrats. Once NH folks realize a mistake has been made, they do their darndest to correct it at the first opportunity.

Look for the legislature to go back to the GOP, as well as at least one of the Congressional seats. There is real movement in my district to get rid of Che-Porter.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

New Hampshire is also called “Massachusetts North”.

[knarf]

Put a clean kid and a dirty kid in the same room and let them play for a while ...

Come back and ...

The dirt ALWAYS comes off the dirty kid and makes the clean kid dirty ...

Never the other way around.

The only way to get the dirty kid clean is for him to WANT to be clean.

No desire to be clean?

Then he'll remain dirty ... and dirtify everyone around him.

America has been under attack for years ... and on increasingly more fronts.

[hinckley buzzard]

In a recent converstaion with a native New Hampshire resident she observed that most of the influx is not from MA but from NY and Connecticut. Whichever, it's sad to see the disease metastasize.

[TRY ONE]

“They are affluent and very liberal...” And they’ll love Rangel’s new stick-it-in-your-ear tax increase!

[tiger-one]

OCCA, have not seen your tag in a while. Good points, also the smoking ban, taken away from business owners and dictated by the socialists.

[OCCASparky]

Only by Massholes.

Seriously tho--clarification to my earlier post. One of the things BOTH parties are guilty of is the spending/tax/education system that got us where we are now. However, the Dems ARE far worse at spending with fewer results--remember, results don't matter as long as you FEEL GOOD.

The biggest reason we have comparatively few high-tech jobs is because we have high energy costs (no kidding) and the second-highest corporate tax rate in the country. Would YOU want to relocate to NH knowing you're getting nailed for that kind of coin? So people commute from here to Boston, pay MA taxes, and live in NH where it's still semi-affordable (unless you're on the Seacoast).

And I don't know about the 2nd CD here in NH, but Jeb is already running against Che-Porter and pretty much everyone I know who voted for her is going through buyer's remorse. She looks like a "one-and-done" Congresscritter.

[Cicero]

I’m not a subscriber, so I don’t know what he said. But I’ve heard elsewhere that the increasing liberalism in New Hampshire cannot be localized to the south. I think several analysts made that point after the last election.

Maybe it’s flatlanders moving into other parts of the state? Maybe it’s the public school system brainwashing kids? Maybe it’s the fact that virtually every college in the country, with the few obvious exceptions, has been taken over by crazed liberals?

[flowerplough]

New Hampshire- Live for free, but die from the taxes?

[the invisib1e hand]

one word: massholes.