My finding has been that supposedly apolitical people tend to go Left when the rubber meets the road. The demographic where you live is nearly identical to the one where I live. It reminds me of some of the wealthy suburbs of Boston in an odd sort of way.
You got that right. Lived in Newton in 1977-1979, native of Brockton. To this day, I've STILL never figured out how the people there could be so stupid to vote for the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Tip O'Neill, Gerry Studds and Barney Frank.
Of course, when I lived in Newton, we had the first Congressman to be booted out by the Vatican (I forget the Reverend's name who was our congress critter).