[Boston Blackie]

.... but I have no sympathy. Brought it on themselves.

How so?

[thefactor]

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.