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.
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.
Eurocrats
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.
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.
I think a lot of Republicans are turning blue up there too... lots of support for “blue” GOP candidates.
LLS
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.
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.
New Hampshire is also called “Massachusetts North”.
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.
“They are affluent and very liberal...” And they’ll love Rangel’s new stick-it-in-your-ear tax increase!
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?
New Hampshire- Live for free, but die from the taxes?
The margins of victory for liberal voters in New Hampshire come from the areas around the colleges in the state, and from Portsmouth.
The reason for liberal voting patterns around UNH and Dartmouth is pretty obvious, just look at the politics of most university faculty and many of their students. The left and the Democrats have been organizing them like mad.
I suspect Portsmouth has moved to the left due to the influx of wealthy retirees, many of whom are liberals, and the politicization of many of its younger residents who have traditionally been rather free spirited.
Those towns happen to be further north than the counties along the border, but the real change is that ratio of Republicans to Democrats and liberal Independents has been reduced in the border due to migration from Massachusetts, and therefore we can no longer offset the effect of the liberals in the college towns and Portsmouth.
In local races Republican candidates have suffered from a very weak state Republican party, and intense, organized liberal support for Democratic candidates. Up until a couple of years ago candidates for state Rep. typically spent $500 or $1000 for their campaign for some signs and a home made flyer. In the last race the Democratic candidates all had professionally produced, color printed brochures, signs, etc. I read an article describing how an issue oriented group in Massachusetts spent over $100,000 supporting Democratic candidates for state Rep., along with sending full time campaign staffers to NH.
New Hampshire is seen as a target by every liberal political group around, and they have brought agressive, out of state funded campaign operations to bear on candidates and a political system based on low key personal campaigning. All you have to do is read the local newspapers, where the letters to the editor section are now full of letters clearly written in response to some email the authors received from MoveOn.org or Emilys List or some other group of their ilk.
It is time for the conservatives in this state to get in gear and meet the challenge - our traditional style of politics is sadly gone.
Um... it's _subscribers only_.
My personal opinion of threads like this is "why bother" if the original poster is not going to put up enough of the article so that EVERYONE can get the gist of what it's about.
I would prefer a ban from posting "subscription only " articles in this forum at all. The "link" to the "rest of the story" is meaningless, because without a subscription there _is no_ story. To me, that's tantamount to not providing a link at all, which is forbidden here.
Again, just my opinion, and yours may be different.
- John
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