I was just down in Texas. The noticeable difference in positive attitude and how people look at things tells me they are still free indeed. Compare to NH where the Socialists moved in from MA. This is my home State but I moved to Maine. I prefer being openly taxed in the form of State income taxes then be be taxed by the courts and police in a Socialist model. Most of America is Socialist now, but I choose States to live where the Socialism is conducted openly then in stealth like in NH.
Not coincidentally, NH has had a population drain in the last couple of years. NH is running a new campaign using radio and T.V. to attract new people to the State. They don’t get it, stop the Socialism and people will move back to the Live Free or Die State. Reminds me of MA. Where are the Sons of Liberty? Sold out to Socialists. The irony of taxation without representation there is about on the same level of live free or die in NH. In four years the kids will be out of the house. I will research the last bastions of conservatism (if any still exist at that time) and move there. Eventually, I have a feeling I will live out of country where it may be more lawless, but I don’t go to jail if I don’t kill off home intruders with guns.