The Free Staters and mega libertarians have taken over the Republican Party in New Hampshire leaving little room for those who were once the party’s stalwarts.
The strategy to arrive where we are today in New Hampshire was determined decades ago in the backrooms of first the University of Virginia and then George Mason University as the southern gentry sought to retain their privileges, their money and their power and could see it slipping away as voting rights expanded the electorate and schools were ordered to desegregate.
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