Posted on 05/06/2005 12:18:01 PM PDT by aculeus
Entrepreneurial Dutchmen are welcome to move over here. We already have enough welfare types.
I thibnk it was Orwell who said, some things are so ridiculous only a real expert would believe them.
Take a look at the New Hampshire Secretary of State's town-by-town voting results for the last election.
All the towns along the Mass. border voted heavily for Bush & Benson, over 60% further west.
The major votes for Lynch & Kerry came along the western border with Vermont, and in the city of Concord where all the sinecured bureaucrats had been fired by Benson.
People coming here from Mass. are of the vanishing breed known as "Massachusetts Conservatives." They're not the ones voting for insanity, they're the ones reinforcing the efforts of old-fashioned New Hampshire conservatives.
Fact is, is that we are now (marginally) a blue state and getting bluer. I believe the conservative majority along the border might have been greater in the past and would explain past Republican victories.
It is true that along the western border where I live, is largely pro-Dem.
Sure, some conservatives coming in, but seems not enough to stem the trend.
And therein lies the point of the Free State Project.
Hey, all of us aren't that way!! The vast majority of folks who leave MA, move outh to a red state. And most ot THEM are not liberals and hate the socialist state here, as well as the "culture"
We are not part of it, nor did we create it! :)
south! not outh! oops sorry
And will likely try to re-establish it in their new homelands ;kinda like what happens when blue state yankees infest red state cities and towns in their quest to rid themselves of the deplorable conditions they've created at home.
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