It’s a region rich in jerks. I had more in mind the town that white supremacist libertarians took over, lowered taxes in until they couldn’t afford any standard services, and then were overrun by bears. Certainly a scenario that could play out in any state with a right-wing political culture.
In New England these days, there’s really only two states where that particular situation could happen as a matter of course, and Maine’s too big and empty for anyone to have noticed.
Yeah, those were all ppl who moved to NH to create a libertarian hell hole in that specific small town. It'd be a bit like judging California because of the Donner Party.
Dunno, “a settler-colonial state run for and by incompetent but unapologetic cannibals” is a shoe that fits so well it might appear on a Gavin Newsom poster next week. We may have put our fingers on a pretty good method for state characterization here!