The Gold State

Hnau

Banned
"... Give me the tools to help you bring this message of Freedom and Liberty to the State House of New Hampshire, and we will send shockwaves not just across this great State, not just a seismic shift in Concord, but throughout the entirety of the United States of America, because men, women and children all around this great country, from all different states, will look to the State of New Hampshire with respect for what we are fighting for. We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the Will and Moral Courage of free men and women. You and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own future. You and I have a rendez-vouz with Destiny: we'll preserve for our children this the last and best hope for man on Earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. New Hampshire has been titled 'The Granite State', but I declare unto you this day that it can and shall become the first 'Gold State' and a bastion of Liberty in this age that so requires it."

- New Hampshire Governor Jeffrey Sorenson, 1972

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There were several attempts to create a unified Libertarian Party of the United States throughout the 1960s, culminating the the official creation in OTL of the Libertarian Party in 1971. With Jefferey Sorenson's meteoric rise in the 1960s again the Vietnam War and the Great Society ITTL, the creation of the Libertarian Party of the United States would come not only five years later, but secure an important victory in the 1972 presidential election, creating a strange new anomaly in the United States political system: the rise of the Gold State. The key to this victory was the political migration of thousands of libertarians to New Hampshire under the guise of the Porcupine Movement initiated in 1969.

Anybody interested?
 
Definately interested <Shudder>

Since New Hampshire is my home, any timeline focused on New Hampshire is quite interesting to me. (Though in this timeline, if Libertarian ideals took over, I'd likely NOT be calling New Hampshire home.)
 

Hnau

Banned
The Libertarian Party is founded in 1966 instead of 1971 by a Lenin-esque leader, which manages to combine the smaller movements in California, Colorado, New York, Virginia and Florida. Furthermore, the idea of the Free State Project is realized at the same time, becoming a more mainstream idea. The Libertarian Party establishes a Reagan-esque niche and a determined drive to win at least one state to establish their ability to win electoral college votes and spark a nation-wide movement. The state is decided to be New Hampshire. The Republicans move to the center, and the Democrats to the left, eventually allowing the Libertarians in as a serious third party.
 
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