Yikes! Another vanity post without "VANITY" in the subject line.
Anyhoo, I live in a pro-military area. So? I'm pleased I don't have to subject myself to that many open liberals.
It all goes back to the Puritans. They knew what was best for everyone. They were the first leftists in America. Rhode Island was founded by a man that they chased out of Massachussettes. During the Civil War new englanders were antislavery not because of some love of human rights, but because they "knew better" than a bunch of hicks from the south.
Everyone around here is liberal. Once you get enough liberals in an area conservatives are silenced. Then everyone grows up thinking that the liberal way is the only way. The universities and unions might be part of the problem but it runs much, much deeper. I live in a semi-rural area where people are well off. Liberals everywhere. The snobbish attitude pervades everything. People from other parts of the country are looked down on, and europeans are considered superior (instead of the remnants of a degenerate society).
As for NH and VT, it is all about the waves of liberals from MA. My sister-in-law just moved across the border to NH. She's one of the Anybody but Bush crowd. Actually the universities brought her here.