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Mount Seymour wrote:Vermont, NH, and Massachusetts aren't really moving farther right. Just because they have Republican governors... a New England Republican is a very different thing from a Republican anywhere else.

I agree about Massachusetts and Vermont, although I only kind of agree with your point about NH. NH I suppose isn’t moving much, but it is considerably less progressive and even more republican than the others. That being said, it is still a blue state, but it is closer politically I’d say to parts of upstate NY than it is to neighboring Vermont. When I went to NH a few years ago for vacation, there were a lot of Republicans there it seemed, and NH is also less rich and less cosmopolitan than Massachusetts or Vermont. We even saw a shop with a confederate flag and with a sign saying “You may try but it won’t die”, referring to the gun-loving Confederate mentality. It may not be moving to the right, but out of the New England states, it is by far the most moderate (or even Republican) of them all, in some areas even resembling Pennsylvania or upstate NY.

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