Yesterday was a very busy day on the site. According to the Slimstat Counter there were 1,778 pageviews and 1,482 unique visitors on the site and the large majority of them were here to read the post “Which State Will Grovel the Least to the Looters?” and 216 of these readers voted on the poll and 33 of them left more or less detailed information about why they voted the way they did.
Here is some of the raw information.
| Votes | State | Votes | |||
| Texas | 42 | ||||
| Wyoming | 38 | ||||
| Other | 28 | ||||
| Idaho | 24 | ||||
| Tennessee | 16 | ||||
| Montana | 13 | ||||
| Alabama | 12 | ||||
| North Dakota | 11 | ||||
| Oklahoma | 11 | ||||
| Arkansas | 7 | ||||
| Arizona | 7 | ||||
| Utah | 5 | ||||
| Mississippi | 2 | ||||
| Total | 216 | ||||
| Comments | State | Votes | Comments | ||
| Idaho | 5 | ||||
| Texas | 3 | Fredericksburg | |||
| South Dakota | 2 | ||||
| Oklahoma | 2 | ||||
| Wyoming | 2 | Stay away from Teton County | |||
| Alabama | 1 | ||||
| Missouri | 1 | Southwest MO | |||
| Tennesee | 1 | ||||
| Nevada | 1 | Northeast Nevada | |||
| West Virginia | 1 | ||||
| Florida | 1 | Northeast Florida (Jacksonville) | |||
| South Carolina | 1 |
You can view the comments back at the post. But I’ll give a few general impressions I gleaned from reading the comments. First off, there are an awful lot of good people left in this country and there are lots of places where people are breathing air that’s a lot freer than what I breath here in the gulag. Just reading how the armed citizenry of Idaho repulsed the Antifa scum trying to invade from Spokane Washington was absolutely inspiring. And I found out there are other places that weren’t on my “list” that are also free. Places like South Dakota and West Virginia should have been, but even purple states like Missouri, Florida and Nevada have vast areas where life is still free. And I learned that even if Texas has some enormous cities full of progressives there are millions of red-blooded conservatives there. And finally I must say that Wyoming may have one of the smallest populations among the fifty states it had the second highest vote count in the poll.
I’ll have much more to say about the results but I wanted to put out a quick update and say thanks to all the great folks who responded so enthusiastically. You certainly gave me a lot to think about.
If you like the water there are many great lakes and rivers in Idaho. The big lake, Pend Oreille has 95,000 acres of surface area and is 1,500 feet deep in spots.
Makes up for a lack of salt water recreation.
Plus, you’ll never run out of potatoes in Idaho. 😉
Uprooting and moving cross continent is a major life decision so I’ll have to be thorough in selecting a state and a locale that best fits my wants. When my kids were young we used to bring them to a place called Old Orchard Beach in southern Maine to swim in the ocean. It was like the places on the Jersey shore that my father’s family used to visit when I was a kid, only with much colder water. Old Orchard Beach was working class as opposed to the pretentious crowd that went to Ogunquit or Kennebunkport. And nothing like… Read more »
The US Navy has a sonar research station on the lake. We used to practice freshwater infiltration and exfiltration in the lake. Diving in fresh water is a different animals than salt water. Decompression depths and times have to be revised for one thing. If you’re using a rebreather (which I don’t care for) there are adjustments to be made there as well. One of our guys was a joker. He’d grab a fishing line and take off with it underwater, making the fisherman in the boat think he had a monster on the other end. He’d play with them… Read more »
What good is scuba diving if you can’t have a little fun? The only major fresh water fishing I’ve done was for pike and bass on Lake Champlain about twenty years ago with my son. That was fun. But back when I was young we would go saltwater off boats for bluefish, weak(mouth bass)fish and striped bass. My father in law was the original old man of the sea. He loved fishing more than breathing. One time he brought me out on a small boat off the end of Long Island for stripers and we got skunked. But at the… Read more »
The worst case of nitrogen narcosis (rapture of the deep) I got was in that lake.It was fresh water so I was not as alert as I should have been. Thankfully my dive buddy recognized the symptoms and got me up to a safer level. That is why I recommend nitrogen narcosis as a method of execution for the squeamish. It is not painful, you have a strange but happy hallucination and eventually the oxygen is replaced and you die, peacefully. Nobody can “go after” the provider of the execution gas as it is taken from the air itself, which… Read more »
It’s almost too nice a way to go. Especially for some of those who will be in line for it.