Massachusetts (MA)
The American Revolution happened here and still does!
The first shots of the American Revolution — Lexington and Concord — were fired here. Boston hosted a grand F-U tea party to England.
Thoreau penned about self reliance while living on Walden Pond.
The state was the first in the US to legalize gay marriage, a boon for bohemian Provincetown’s and Salem’s LGBTQA+ communities.
Most recently, Harvard University and MIT have refused to comply with POTUS demands. Status quos be damned.