As tough and as patriotic as many working-class people from Boston are, they vote party-line Democrat. Have for decades. Especially the Irish. In cases like this you can’t judge a single person, you have to judge the region as a whole. And that region as a whole has been solid leftist for a very long time.
Evilly so. Think Teddy & Barney & Kerry & Liz.
So that's why you said they brought it upon themselves. Would you apply that same logic to the Boston Marathon bombings and the toppling of the Twin Towers on 9/11? New York been solid leftist for decades. Several Irish American first responders died in the towers that day.
The fishermen of New England have been fighting tyrannical government regulation for decades and are losing their way of life to those regulations and to foreign fishing fleets that don't have to abide by the same regulations.
The New England fishermen, like the above mentioned victims, did not bring it upon themselves.
Note that Red Hampshire did NOT participate in the ‘wave’ that swept from east to west on Election Day. With the exception of one; Red Hampshire re-elected dems to high office across the board. A sodomite came close to seizing the office of Governor from Maine’s LePage...