It’s Time to Accept the Fact That New Hampshire is a Blue State
Vote Democrat or die.
I was one of the people holding out hope that New Hampshire would go red in the 2024 presidential election. The state has not done so since the 2004 election of George W. Bush. If ever there was a year when the Granite State might go red again, this was it.
After the state was called for Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, I tweeted this:
New Hampshire is dead to me.
— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) November 6, 2024
As you can see from this 2024 election map via NBC News, there were plenty of towns in New Hampshire that went red, but the state’s largest cities of Concord, Manchester, and Nashua are solid blue. The more rural areas are too sparsely populated to overcome this.
The political transformation of New Hampshire began in the 1980s. Liberals from Massachusetts, who voted for Democrats and higher taxes, realized that they could move to New Hampshire to avoid the policies that they supported and still be only an hour’s drive to their jobs in the greater Boston area.
Unfortunately, they brought their voting habits with them and over the course of a decade or two, permanently changed the state from red to blue.
Some of you will point to the fact that the outgoing Governor Chris Sununu is being replaced by Kelly Ayotte, another Republican who just won the 2024 gubernatorial election. I can explain that, too.
Ayotte, like Sununu before her, is a moderate Republican. They are the only kinds of Republicans who can win races in New England. Also, history has shown that New Englanders are sometimes willing to allow Republicans to become governors. See Phil Scott, who just won reelection in Vermont (and voted for Kamala Harris), or Mitt Romney, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.
I’m not suggesting that New Hampshire should be ignored or punished in any way. I’m just saying that we should all accept the fact that New Hampshire is now a blue state until they prove otherwise.
I don’t see that happening any time soon.
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Is it?
It’s now known as Northern Massachusetts.
Accurate.
If someone one of the current Senators screwed up, maybe you get a Republican elected to Senate, it would a very moderate Olympia Snowe type – which would be useful for a few votes but not super helpful.
The same thing has happened to Arizona and Nevada. Californians, fleeing the insane outcomes of their voting patterns in California continue to vote the same way in their new home states. Essentially, they vote with their feet, but not their heads.
Colorado as well.
It takes a couple of generations. Witness the red southern states that saw millions of people flee Detroit, Akron, Buffalo and go back home. They were mostly black, but liked marriage, grandchildren and church. They voted as they had for a while, but…..
I’m so sad – such a great state to grow up in :((
“Live Free or Die”…. yep… they have chosen.
NH and RI were establishment republican back in the day George Bush Sr.
The Free State Project went nowhere
They could have had Wyoming instead… but no.
The techies weren’t willing to Go Full Heinlein.
They sure didn’t choose for climate reasons.
Leftists are like locusts. Look what they did to Colorado.
As a Texan, it is very hard for me to give a damn about Vermont and their 3 electoral votes. Just as Colorado is now full of Californians, Vermont is full of New Yorkers. Refugees bring their culture with them. However, let’s check back in 3 generations; that’s an easy rule of thumb for assimilation.
100 years ago Calvin Coolidge had emerged from Vermont and had served as governor of Massachusetts. Maine was rock solid Republican.
Entropy isn’t a pendulum.
Gotta come to terms that we must run candidates for Congress in this sort of moderate center/left State who can win over the electorate. By the same token we can demand that we run more strident candidates in Red States/CD and should stop accepting pretenders like Cornyn of TX as the best we do.
Finally we gotta accept that some Congressman from a deep Red +20 Trump CD can vote differently than a Congressman from a purple CD/State that split tickets and went for Biden or Harris. Can’t realistically expect a Susan Collins be a MAGA purist fire brand and folks need to stop wasting time bitching over it and instead direct their anger/energy/effort at pretenders like Cornyn who don’t come close to hitting the MAGA tolerance limit for their State or CD.
NH was the only state this lifelong Massachusetts resident had ever considered moving to. For now, I’ll just move out of this very Blue county into a very Red town.
Many of us saw this coming when the Manchester Union-Leader collapsed.
Nacky Loeb was fierce.
I was born in NH 82 years ago and I am stlll living here.
Over the past 35 years we have been invaded by what I call “Blow-ins” from CT, NY, NJ who come here to get away from the mess they made of their own state. I don’t believe that a lot of them have changed because I have had one of them say to me “you people up here don’t know how to vote”.
All of our newspapers including the once solid Republican Manchester Union Leader have been taken over by anti-republican liberals, our only local TV station was bought out by Bloomberg.
Our US congressional reps and senators are all female or LBG+ but our 400 member NH house of representatives, state senate, and governor are Republican or majority Republican.
Here is a good video of the current leader of the NH Democratic Part of NH.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/10/shocking-video-uncovered-of-vice-chair-ray-buckley-second-in-line-at-dnc/
Here are some interesting links about NH.
Average IQ by state
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/mapping-average-iq-score-state
The top three states are
Massachusetts (104.3),
New Hampshire (104.2)
North Dakota (103.8)
Massachusetts’ higher score average could be due to several factors. For starters, the state is home to prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT, which may contribute to a more academically focused culture.
Freedom In the 50 States
https://www.freedominthe50states.org/
1 New Hampshire
2 Florida
3 South Dakota
4 Nevada
5 Arizona
6 Tennessee
7 Michigan
8 Missouri
“Massachusetts’ higher score average could be due to several factors. For starters, the state is home to prestigious universities like Harvard and MIT”
People come for the training and then stay for the opportunity.
When you manage a border or a student enrollment like Maxwell’s demon – which is exactly how they should be managed – you enhance your relative competence and wealth generating potential. Go back and revisit these numbers after 20 years of DEI, and watch the advantage evaporate.
There is no question we here in NH are on the edge of a cliff staring into the abyss. We have not gone over yet. There are enough sane folks here that realize a democrat state government would be a disaster. Republicans Hold the Governorship, the Executive Council, and both Houses of the Legislature.
In addition ammo.com chose NH as the most gun friendly state in the country.
https://ammo.com/articles/most-gun-friendly-states#:~:text=%231%20New%20Hampshire,can%20open%20and%20conceal%20carry.
“I’ll be back.” –The Arizonator
The “blue locust” myth is simply that: a myth. Here in Florida we’ve gone from a Dem registration edge in 2021 to now more than 1 million more Republicans than Dems, the result of refugees fleeing from northeastern states with their onerous taxation, high housing costs, and crime.
Ditto for states like Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, all of which were once competitive and now solidly red. With Tim Sheehy’s election, this is the first time in my life that Montana will send two GOP senators to DC.
I recall reading a post-mortem on the 2018 Texas US senate election indicating that Beto O’Rourke won among native Texans, but that Ted Cruz won overwhelmingly among transplants to the state. I’m guessing the same pattern held this year as well.
And then there’s Nevada, where I lived for fifteen years:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/refugees-california-leftism-could-deliver-nevada-trump
I live on the Mass/N.H. border and have family in each state. What we have observed is that most of those fleeing Massachusetts are conservatives. Example: in the border town of Salem, 7th largest municipality in state, Trump crushed Harris. The most heavily leftist areas are those around Dartmouth College and UNH – of course. So sick of the lie that Mass. transplants are the problem. Also sick of the assumption that I’m a dem because I live in Mass. Over 1 in 3 residents here voted for Trump. Not zero. There’s a lot of us, and we don’t need to be trashed by fellow conservatives who live in “better” places.
Agree, but then again, I fled the People’s Republic of MA for Florida 3 years ago.
How sweet if would be if we had an electoral college in states! Each county would get one vote. That would crush the states where the population centers are in the driver’s seat. Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, NM, NH…they’d all be bright red.
Not to break up the doom, gloom, and pessimism. But in addition to Governor Ayotte:
The (relatively powerful) Executive Council will remain 4-1 Republican.
Republicans gained two seats in the State Senate, and will have a 16-8 advantage there.
Some races for the State’s “General Court” are still officially uncalled, but it looks like Republicans are going from a slim majority (201-199 at one point) to a stronger 222-178 majority.
It’s also worth pointing out that Kamala only won NH by 2.7 percentage points (50.9%-48.2% according to the Google). That appears to have been her smallest victory margin. A less, um, controversial GOP candidate than Trump (in an alternate universe) could have walked away with NH.
So climb off that ledge, Mike.
New Hampshire isn’t hopeless.
When I first moved (was transferred) to Florida, it was solidly Democrat. All State-wide offices were Democrat.
Two years ago Governor DeSantis set records in his landslide re-election.
This year Trump won is several counties where the Democrats had more registered voters than Republicans, including Miami-Dade (the largest).
I can never go home again, sigh