In Assist of the Free State Venture

NBC Boston’s multi-episode protection of the Free State Venture included a naysayer complaining that the movers to New Hampshire are solely doing so as a result of they’re minorities of their residence states. I ask, does this make the undertaking illegitimate?

This appears to be the best way of the world in my estimation. Right here’s a sampling of a number of comparable minorities who moved in some coordinated mass of 1 form or the opposite:

The Pilgrims – These separatists have been searching for non secular freedom by first abandoning England for the Netherlands after which to the brand new world. They have been actually within the minority in England and the Netherlands within the early 1600s.

The Amish – The Amish have been a minority of their residence nations in Europe after which migrated to Pennsylvania within the 1700s due to the absence of spiritual persecution within the colony of William Penn. That is straight analogous to the New Hampshire “porcupines” choosing the state which was already one of many freer states within the union.

The Mormons – After the founding of the faith within the 1820-30 period, the prevailing Mormons began to maneuver from New York and elsewhere to Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri the place they have been within the minority. They deserted their focus there and finally settled into their most substantial neighborhood of right now—Utah.

Blacks – After WWII there was a big migration of blacks from the South to the Midwest and Northeast. Blacks have been the minority inhabitants of their residence states. They moved to hunt alternative and higher remedy—precisely paralleling the transfer to New Hampshire with the Free State Venture.

Cubans – Following Fidel Castro’s 1959 Cuban Revolution, many freedom-loving Cubans headed north to Florida. This migration was additional intensified with the Mariel Boat Lifts within the Eighties. The minority of Cubans who objected to communism and who have been bodily and financially in a position to make the journey did so.

Texas and Florida – Conservatives have begun a near-exodus to Texas and Florida searching for to flee their minority standing in California and the overbearing progressive authorities insurance policies there. Like New Hampshire, Texas and Florida are among the many 10 states with no state revenue tax.

Massachusetts residents have fled to Florida, Texas, and New Hampshire in recent times, given their minority place of residents objecting to the insurance policies, notably the excessive taxes of their residence state.

Oregon – Throughout the first half of the 1800s, hundreds of settlers adopted the Oregon Path emigrate from the East and settle in Oregon. They have been the minority among the many many Indian tribes—once more just like the libertarians shifting to New Hampshire.

Manhattan – A European settlement was established on the island in 1624—they have been absolutely a minority compared towards the Carnisee Tribe house owners—simply because the Free Staters are a minority in New Hampshire. The Island was bought two years later to the Dutch after which to the English in 1626.

The Jews – After the escape from Egypt and their minority standing there, Moses led his individuals to the Promised Land—right now’s Israel. All through historical past, Jews have moved to keep away from mistreatment and persecution.

Critics of the Free State Venture ought to direct any animosity, not at these shifting to their state, however to the opposite 49 states for failing to be freer states. It’s these overbearing states which can be the reason for the necessity for but another migration. However let’s you’ll want to notice that, in contrast to a number of the world’s migrations, the Free State Venture migrants should not shifting to New Hampshire to exert coercion on the prevailing inhabitants however are shifting to cut back the observe of coercion typically there as embodied within the American Dream.