[Zhangliqun]

One would think that having #46 Vermont and #7 New Hampshire side-by-side would have drained all the business out of Vermont long ago -

Maybe it pretty much did happen -- maybe 30 years ago they were #25 and #26.

[GSlob]

I doubt it - NH has had a pretty serious libertarian streak to it [low taxes and not too generous social services]. That's how it has always been. Thus I would suspect that its place near the top is a more or less a permanent fixture.