eligibility to join free state project

[IS2C]

 Is it true that New hampshire born  people are not eligible  to join the free state project?

[Kat Kanning]

If you're already in NH, just join in the activism, or let us know what we can join you on

[Sam A. Robrin]

It's mostly a matter of semantics.  People were quite the sticklers about it for a time, but when I was sitting on the porch of the Liberty Bunker under a porcupine flag, and a carload of college students passed by and yelled, "Free Staters!  Yeah!," I realized that the colloquial use of the term was outgrowing the technicality. 
     So I wrote this song:

WE'RE ALL FREE STATERS NOW
COPYRIGHT 2009 by Sam A. Robrin or whoever the hell it is who writes these things. Go ahead and use it, but if you make a little money on it, I want some!

We made the move for freedom--
Knew our rights, and guaranteed 'em!
But abnormal psychology
Infects the terminology.

There's a certain group of purists
Acting like voir dire'd jurists,
Clucking tongues and standing firm
When you use a certain term . . .

   Activists act like they have an edge
   When they've signed up to that Free State pledge;
   Then they're thrown for quite a loop
   When others classify the group.

   Random freedom agitators
   Are referred to as Free Staters.
   Natives, drifters, all are carryin'
   The label of the Free State libertarian.

      Carp all you like, Jason, you can't fight it,
      Trademark, patent, or copyright it.
      We could sort it all out, but I wouldn't know how.
      Accept it--we're all Free Staters now!

   There are locals, and folks from exotic places,
   Painters and poets and video aces,
   Stoners and farmers and business types,
   Wavers of Gadsden, or stars and stripes,

   Anarcho-hyphenates, huggers of trees,
   Constitutional devotees--
   There are thinkers and doers of every kind,
   Regardless of whether they've moved or signed.

      Carp all you like, Jason, you can't fight it,
      Trademark, patent, or copyright it.
      We could sort it all out, but I wouldn't know how.
      Accept it--we're all Free Staters now!

         Scribes in the print and broadcast news,
              Approving or appalled,
         Need a convenient tag to use--
              So Free Staters is what we're called.

   It seems to speak for the grand design
   That lots make the move, but wouldn't sign.
   Don't dwell too long on what that may prove:
   A lot more sign the pledge, but never move.

   The ones you can count on to always come through,
   Who are mobile, and active, and Do! Do! Do!,
   Love freedom's tenets, and see that they're kept
   Can come join the effort, however yclept.

      Carp all you like, Jason, you can't fight it,
      Trademark, patent, or copyright it.
      We could sort it all out, but I wouldn't know how.
      Accept it--we're all Free Staters now!

[Russell Kanning]

i agree
if you want to call yourself a freestater, then go for it
if you want to sign up with the free state project, go to their website and sign up as a "pioneer" .... that is their term for you

[John]

I have had two people here in Grafton tell me that they think of themselves kind of as freestaters even though one has been here for maybe 19 years and the other moved here several years ago without ever having heard of the FSP.
One guy said, "Can I call myself a FreeStater?" The other said,"So what would you guys call me?"

Another local friend of mine, who has lived in Grafton for most of her life, says her dad tells her - in a friendly and complimentary way - that she'll "fit right in with all those new people moving in." To which she replies, " ... I've got my own little revolution going on." 

[John]

Oh, and what Kat said. 

[Fluff and Stuff]

Is it true that New hampshire born  people are not eligible  to join the free state project?

It is slightly confusing, perhaps needlessly so.  You cannot join as a FSP participant (aka mover) if you currently live in NH because you cannot move to NH (if you already live there).  If you don't currently live in NH (whether you were born in NH or not), you can join as a participant (aka mover).

If you currently live in NH, you can still join but it is called a friend or pioneer or something.

https://freestateproject.org/join