The answer to your question, Cod, is rather simple. The history of this state is of a people who were rugged individualists. People who came here to live their own lives not beholden to others. They hacked a life for themselves and their families out of the wilderness with their own two hands with no help from the state. We don't want to "chip in" for the "benefit of all" and we don't need your government services. We don't want to give up what we've built and earned to support those who won't do the same. As for your last sentence, you are correct. This is very much a continuation of the Cold War fight against socialism. And if you think socialism will work in America, I direct your attention to cities like Chicago and Detroit. People like you would turn our, how did you put it? "most beautiful place on the planet" into a 3rd world socialist poop-hole like Chicago. No thank you. Edit: They deleted your comment as uncivil while I was responding. I thought it was perfectly civil.