A Free Klan Project in New Hampshire?

Are Free Staters hypocrites for discouraging authoritarians from moving to New Hampshire?

Also published at: Substack



Sometimes Free Staters are accused of hypocrisy because we encourage liberty lovers to move to New Hampshire, but discourage authoritarians from doing the same.

IMO, people deliberately moving to NH because they admire and want to join the culture and lifestyle is fine. Deliberately moving here with the explicit goal of changing New Hampshire is wrong. What if the KKK decided to concentrate in New Hampshire and change our state in ways that suit THEIR views?

In a world where people have widely varying beliefs regarding governance, what is the best we can do to accommodate them all?

Is the best way to force everyone to live in the same communities they were born into?
If someone is born gay in Alabama, should they remain there despite the fact that many people in Alabama dislike gay people?

If a conservative is born in New York City, should they remain in NYC for the rest of their lives, despite the fact that NYC's policies will always conflict sharply with their own?

Or should we allow people to self-assort into different states based on common values?

If gay people concentrate in San Francisco and homophobes concentrate in Alabama, then won’t both be happier than if they were forced to live together?

White nationalists tend to push heavily for big government, and exhibit several other negative traits (stupidity, hypocrisy, psychopathy, etc). The antics of the LPNH notwithstanding, most libertarians aren't white nationalists. Most believe in liberty and equality before the law.

Since the Klan will always be in conflict with the libertarians, I would discourage white nationalists from concentrating in New Hampshire as part of a "Free Klan Project".

But I'm not opposed to the Klan concentrating elsewhere. IMO, Idaho or Arkansas would be a better choice for white nationalists.

Likewise, I encourage conservatives and progressives to move to one of the many other states that cater to their preferences.

I also don't assign any weight to the location where someone plopped out of their Mom's vagina.

Whether someone was born in NH or elsewhere doesn't matter to me at all.

Instead, I ask myself:

Are they

If someone's character matches those criteria, I want them in my state.

If they don't meet those criteria, I wish them well in some other state.

In other words, I believe that people should be judged by the content of their character, not the coordinates of their birthplace.

But what about the people already living in New Hampshire? Don't they have the right to keep the government policies the way they are now?

There is no single "culture" in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is made up of a variety of cultures. Here are a few of the major political factions:

As the libertarian community has grown (due to the Free State Project), so too has their political power. And the other factions don't like losing power.

But Free Staters are doing nothing that natives or the existing parties don't do: buying land, contributing to their community, and supporting the policies that they prefer. And conservatives and progressives certainly exhibit no compunction about forcing their policy preferences on libertarians.

Moreover, New Hampshire is the only state where libertarians have a chance of implementing our preferred policies. So, New Hampshire is only going to be increasingly popular with liberty lovers.

Fortunately for progressives and conservatives there are 49 other states that cater to their preferences.

So if they're unhappy with the changes that the growing liberty community will bring to New Hampshire, they can do what Free Staters have done: move to one of the states that align more closely with their values.

Is this the perfect outcome for everyone? No.

But it's the best we can do right now.