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Mass. exodus
The Boston Globe ^ | January 15, 2006 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 01/15/2006 10:56:28 AM PST by george76

Edited on 01/15/2006 11:16:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

FOR THE second year in a row...the population of Massachusetts has shrunk.

It was one of only three states to end the year with fewer people than it had at the start -- New York and Rhode Island were the others -- and the only one to do so for the second year running.


(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: taildragger

Western MA is essentially a seperate state from Eastern MA.

I grew up in Eastern MA, my family still lives there. I didn't know there was a world beyond the 128 loop until I was in my 20's. This cloistered mentality is par for the course in eastern MA.


181 posted on 01/16/2006 6:26:06 AM PST by Pondman88
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To: HostileTerritory

"Boston isn't so exciting if you have to settle 40 miles away to buy a home."

You are right, I had a small home in Plymouth, great place, but the commute to Boston was 40 miles one way and three hours total....that sucked. And the politics suck, you can't be a conservative in Mass. So I moved, to CT, which isn't much better politically--but the commute is much better, nice place to live, you can raise a family and have family time. I live in a good conservative town.


182 posted on 01/16/2006 6:33:00 AM PST by Pondman88
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To: Snickersnee

I have found CT is not quite (yet) as liberal as Mass. You still have working class Dems, Repub congresmen, and even a (supposedly) R governor. But the economy is flat in CT, the Govt taxes everything it can, I would love to move to NH or a good conservative Southern state.


183 posted on 01/16/2006 6:48:27 AM PST by Pondman88
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To: glock_fan

Then there will be an exodus from those states.

These liberals are so stupid they don't know what they're doing to themselves. They vote in these socialists, then leave when things go bad, but continuing to vote for socialists in their new state!


184 posted on 01/16/2006 6:51:33 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: Jackson57

Bring your family and your Conservative Ideals to Montana. We can use them :)


185 posted on 01/16/2006 6:54:50 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: george76

Someone please fix the title of this thread.


186 posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:20 AM PST by devane617 (An Alley-Cat mind is a terrible thing to waste)
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To: minus_273

lack of wind turbines. Plent of wind, just no turbines.


187 posted on 01/16/2006 6:57:36 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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To: CheyennePress

That's because we have a very low rate of churchgoing.


188 posted on 01/16/2006 6:58:25 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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To: Leatherneck_MT

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in the early 80's. Sure gets cold up there, though. But there's nothing like the Rockies and Cascades.


189 posted on 01/16/2006 7:47:33 AM PST by Jackson57
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To: Jackson57

Try the Flathead Valley around Kalispell (I live in Columbia Falls just 16 miles north of there).

Beautiful Valley and the winters aren't as bad as they are East of the Mountains.


190 posted on 01/16/2006 7:50:49 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: sangoo
"Well who is voting for these lousy senators if it's not the populace?"

I see dead people?

191 posted on 01/16/2006 7:57:03 AM PST by Thom Pain (Supporting the Constitution is NOT right wing. It is centrist.)
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To: chris1

NY needs more then just slots. the whole casino environment is missing - food, shopping - its a nice place to spend a day out.

NY loses a ton of tax revenue to NJ and CONN because of this.


192 posted on 01/16/2006 8:51:15 AM PST by oceanview
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To: george76

Looks like the liberals are aborting themselves out of existence.


193 posted on 01/16/2006 9:14:53 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: george76
the population of Massachusetts has shrunk.

Legal population of Massachusetts has shrunk. If you count illegal aliens, the population is probably growing.

194 posted on 01/16/2006 9:24:01 AM PST by A. Pole (Joanne Senier-LaBarre: "We Wish You a Swinging Holiday!")
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To: oceanview
One problem I see in Mass. is that we import the idiot sons and daughters of America for at least 4 yrs and many of them hang on.

The campii of MIT and Harvard are relatively conservative but it is the ne'er do-wells like BC, BU, NU, Simmons, Merrimack, Wellesley, Babson, Holy Cross...etc that really twist this state.

Personal Anecdote-> I know why 6 people left: A young couple with 4 kids recently had an sister inlaw read queer kiddie lit to their kids, behind their back. Solution set: The young mother basically told Massachusetts hubby that she is going back to Texas with the kids and he, of course, was encouraged to come along.

Do Not underestimate the fudge packer quotient.

I actually was day dreaming of going back to Dallas the other week.

Pio in Fagochusetts.

195 posted on 01/16/2006 9:24:14 AM PST by Pio (He who has not Mary for a Mother, has not God for a Father.)
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To: Pio

That's funny, I went to Boston over the New Year and noticed way too many metros and guys who looked like wimpy dorks who would jump in front of their mother if the Shiite ever went down.


196 posted on 01/16/2006 9:46:20 AM PST by chris1
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Just like it worked so well in France and the rest of OLD Europe.


197 posted on 01/16/2006 9:47:21 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: A. Pole
One example, there are many Somalis refugees in government camps in Maine, NH, Mass...who want free housing, free health care, free food, free education...

The Mass politicians are trying to get reduced state university tuition for all Illegal aliens.

No wonder the taxes as so high to pay for all this "free" stuff.

Mass. is a big magnet for every lazy pan handler around the country and around the globe.
198 posted on 01/16/2006 9:54:51 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Past Your Eyes

i moved from Mass about a year and half ago. I now live in Georgia. Several reasons contributed to my decision to leave: The economy, the politics and the fact that I was denied to vote on the homo marriage amendment.


199 posted on 01/16/2006 9:55:02 AM PST by brivette
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To: old republic

I'm a consevative that moved out of Mass to georgia.


200 posted on 01/16/2006 9:56:15 AM PST by brivette
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