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The poster didn’t say in what town the picnic took place.

Worcester county maybe? Surprising. That is one of the more Republican parts of the state.

For some reason, a lot of people in Massachusetts think of Republicans as "them" -- the other side. You could already see some of that back in the Kennedy-Nixon years, and it's only gotten more pronounced over time.

The other thing about Massachusetts is that you never get that far away from Boston. And if you do -- the Connecticut Valley, the Berkshires, Provincetown, Nantucket -- it's just more Boston, only in vacation homes. It's not like in other states where the city and the countryside vote for opposite parties.

[A CA Guy]

That state currently is like the 70s in CA. They do not have a huge illegal immigration problem and they draw tourist with their links to American History.

[Mears]

“The other thing about Massachusetts is that you never get that far away from Boston. “

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That’s the geography of small states.

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