Giambattista Juice🇺🇦: Yeah, actually, I'd posit that the yankee aversion to nosiness in any form is a large part of why the New England states were among the first to enshrine protections for queer people into law.

I'm unironically a New England separatist at this point. I think we would be better off as our own country. All hail the Eastern White Pine...without the appeal to heaven.

An Appeal to Everyone Minding Their Own Damn Business, and Maple Syrup

When you say mind your own business, you mean like how conservatives should stop hassling e.g. queer people?

Yeah, actually, I'd posit that the yankee aversion to nosiness in any form is a large part of why the New England states were among the first to enshrine protections for queer people into law.

Were the NE states ahead on stuff like gay marriage before it became nation-wide thing?

*a nation-wide thing

Yeah, Massachusetts was the first state to adopt same-sex marriage. I marched for it in university myself.

And it's interesting that New Hampshire, which was rock-solid Republican 25 years ago, is now basically a blue state, as its "good fences make good neighbors" brand of conservatism has fallen out of favor in the GOP.

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