which is the freest state in the union?

[UWstudent]

its california!!!! as long as you're in a gang and you dont give a **** about the po-lice, then ur free as hell..

actually it is really alaska. its also beautiful up there as i might add

 

[Merkin.Muffley]

Alaska - nothing else even comes close. I keep asking myself why I'm not there.

 

[TallPine]

Lots of people from CA have moved here [CO] and want to emulate their former goofy state.

Which is why some people like me have left CO and moved to MT

I guess the "freest state" would be the one you feel the most free in. For a hoplophobe who wants the government to take care of him/her, that might be NJ or CA ...

IMO, MT takes the prize out of the Lower 48. AK might be the first choice. I tried it for a couple years a few decades ago, but I just never quite took to it. Lot's of federal owned land up there, which means there's not much private land to buy. Not many roads even for a 4wd, and you don't just walk anyplace you want either, because of the brush and swamps and rivers to cross. At one point I tried to talk my wife into buying a boat and living on it in SE AK, but she would have none of that.

I wish that I had just moved to MT right out of HS in 1972. But certain parts of western CO used to be real nice, before the roads got paved. Took me a long time to get shangri-la out of my system. MT has all these neat things like cold windy winters and blistering dry summers, grasshoppers, prickly pear, thistle, and rattlesnakes to keep all the riff-raff out