Last week Rhode Island (RI) became the 10th state in the United States to recognize same sex marriage. RI’s move to legalize gay marriage makes New England (MA, NH, ME, VT, CT and RI) the first region in the United States to recognize marriage equality as a fundamental right.
Six of the Ten states that now recognize same sex marriage are in New England – 60% of the entire country at the moment. If you throw neighboring New York into the mix that means 70% of all states that recognize marriage equality that accounts for an astounding 70%.
Any doubt what part of the US is the most progressive and open? Now if the rest of the country could join us in the 21st century…
BosGuy 
Yes, the northeast including NY is some 34 million people. Even if we use the bigots favorite 2% number it means there are 680,000 gay people. Further parsing at 50/50 340,000 men – a potential of 170,000 couples.
But it further tells me that the northeast is one of the more free areas of the United States if only by virtue we’ve had close to 400 years of history to get it right.
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