most libertarian, authoritarian states

[MaC]

a sequel post to my left/right states.  I'd probably say New Hampshire is the most libertarian.   Don't know about most authoritarian though.  I guess it's hard to judge based on all you see is the states/countys labeled as red or blue.  I'd be happy to hear any input to this conversation though.

[MaC]

New Hampshire narrowly voted in for both Bush and Kerry.  Neither election was unanimous.  In 2000 George Bush campaigned on being the "smaller government" candidate, however we know from expirience that's obviously not true.  2004 showed New Hampshire as the only state to go from voting Bush to voting Kerry.  Despite Kerry's socialised medicing plan, New Hampshirites must've thought that it would be insane to elect a someone who has expanded the federal government as far as Bush did.  Thus, "anyone but Bush"

[MaC]

authoritarian got Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.  Is there some kind of trend where southern governments dislike liberty?  For what reasons are they ranked as such?

[MaC]

well, I've never been to California other than vacation, but don't they have some rather restrictive gun laws there?  The 2004 LP candidate Badnarik said he lived there until one year CA government passed several restrictive gun laws.  "After escaping that socialist wasteland, I moved to Austin Texas" in his bio.

[MaC]

You know it's funny angus debating the most authoritarian states; Texas and Massachusetts.  The same states where the Republican and Democrat candidates ran from in 2004.  Both have had previous state offices (Bush being governor and Kerry being state attorney general).  Methinks the corporate candidates attribute to the authoritarianism of their states.