New Hampshire is in the wrong place. It should be in the south. Say between Arkansas and Louisiana.
New Hampshire is much more like Massachusetts than Arkansas or Louisiana. Have you even been here?
It`s slow. It`s rural. It`s old fashioned. It`s very, very conservative.
You're wrong about all of those things, except for maybe the old-fashioned part. It's really not slow at all and it's not very rural (especially in the Southern and coastal parts of the state). And it's not all that conservative, pretty moderate actually. I live in Nashua, a small city of about 90,000 that consistently votes Democrat. It's a lot like Vermont and Maine.
While the rest of New England pretty solidly votes Democrat, it is strongly Republican considerring the way it votes in presidential elections.
It went for Kerry in 2004 and went for Clinton at least once (twice maybe?) How is that consistent for Republicans?
Take Manchester. To me Manchester is the name of one of the most famous sports teams in the world. This Manchester is nothing but an airport and a big hotel.
Not true at all. I work right in the heart of downtown Manchester and there's more to do than you think. We have a minor league hockey team, minor league baseball team, arena football team, new arena with many big name concerts, plenty of bars and restaurants, etc. Again, you don't know what you're talking about.
They call New Hampshire the Granite State, but i reckon this is more of a comment on its people than on its geography. They not only look like your mother-in-law. Upbeat, cheerful, optimistic, they are not. They`re miserable, dour, down-at-heel, and when they are not, they give a good impression of it.
Miserable? Dour? Totally disagree. Most of the people in this state are happy as we have possibly the best quality of life of any state in the country. Good education, health care, low crime, skiing and beaches, low poverty. Again, why do you think you know anything about NH?
Yet at the same time they carry guns. Many`s the time i`ve climbed into a truck to see a couple of rifles strapped to the back of the cab. They hunt, they fish - in fact they do everything southers do.
Not more so than any other state. I know almost nobody who hunts or fishes.
The problem is that, precisely because they are all so hard-working, puritanical, churchgoing and believe in the family, all the people who aren`t - the take-it-easy, Brie-eating, wine drinking, secular, quasi-Bohemian New Englanders who are pro-choice, pro-alcohol, pro-drugs (well, soft drugs, anyway) and pro more or less everything else- want to go and live there becasue they think it is a better environment in which to bring up their kids than a place where they will be surrounded by people like themselves.
Again with the northeast stereotypes. And people from NH are DEFINITELY not puritancial!! That's a ridiculous statement!! It is a good place to bring up kids, though.
Will they get on? The answer , of course, is no. The old and the new never get on. The old always loses. Hence the democrats are now finding ways to win in Old Hampshire.
Ridiculous statement. People here are middle-of-the-road and open-minded and get along well. There is no "culture war". There is no "old" and "new".
Its the way the world works. So what happens now to New Hampshire? Will it join its fellow New Englanders in the way it votes for years to come. Or will Old Hampshire fight back?
I read some statistic last week that 57% of native New Hampshirites voted for John Kerry. Does that blow your whole stupid theory out of the water or what?
Again, you really don't know a thing about New Hampshire. Your whole post is heresay.
