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"... 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.

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