California and Vermont and New England in general are about the same in terms of the freedom deficit.
You’d of course be very wrong. New Hampshire (and to some extent Vermont) have tended to be very libertarian. Oh right, and VT has a less restrictive pistol carry law than TX if you’re into that sort of thing. Not to mention not being controlled by the pseudo-Christian right, so they’re more socially libertarian than Texas. Gay marriage is legal, etc/so forth.
The difference is that, being reserved New Englanders, they tend not to flaunt their “libertarianism” in people’s faces, just practice it quietly.
