[NotAlwaysTruculent]

Love Howie, but, as a Bay State native, I think he has it backwards. “Normal” people do not come here to go to college. Most of the students who flood the state’s many colleges are left-wingers. They heap scorn on the working-class “townies” but often decide to settle here. In short, other states export their moonbats to Massachusetts. Every crazy policy imposed by Cambridge pols and officials is largely driven by transplants. The natives who live in the less affluent sections of the city do not support the boutique issues pushed by the wealthy transplants who live there.

[NotAlwaysTruculent]

Howie went to college out of state. I went to UMass/Amherst and Boston University and grew up in a college town near Boston. I’ve known plenty of these people who come here to study. Many are arrogant, elitist moonbats. I believe Howie also grew up in Maine. No one knows more about Bay State politics than Howie, but he’s wrong on this one.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Did those same out-of-state moonbats leave Massachusetts once they started working because they didn’t like the taxes and property prices then move to New Hampshire, turning it from one of the most conservative states to moonbat north?

[madprof98]

Clearly, the majority of Massachusetts voters have long supported the most depraved (and simultaneously most self-righteous) politicians in the country—going back at least to the Kennedys.

[DoodleBob]

As I wrote elsewhere, many of us Deplorables behind enemy lines (NY, NJ, MA, CA) spend lots of bandwidth on FR and elsewhere, explaining that there are a variety of reasons why we're not in Texas or some other deep red state. Maybe it is family, maybe it is a job, maybe it is some situation not within our control. It doesn't mean we are purple RINOs or that we're gun grabbers or abortion lovers.

Indeed, I'd venture to say that BECAUSE we're surrounded by statists of every stripe - left and right - we possibly have a better appreciation for liberty and why it is important to fight for it when you've got it. Further, at the risk of sounding pompous, there are actually some pretty cool things in these areas: Manhattan and Boston are pretty awesome places, the diners in NJ are top-notch, and a drive I once took in San Luis Obispo along the coastline was one of the most beautiful drives I ever had.

I heard of people in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi-occupied territories fighting the enemy, getting captured, and then upon escaping not running away but going BACK to their home and fighting. To be sure, we're not at that point in the US and I'm not putting us on the same level as those heroes...but I'd like to think that a few Deplorables in occupied territories probably have more impact on the margins than people think.

Will our states go Red in 2020? Maybe not. But then nobody thought Trump could turn PA Red. Ya gotta believe.

[bitt]

“The natives who live in the less affluent sections of the city do not support the boutique issues pushed by the wealthy transplants who live there.”

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Or go to ‘cheese shops’, lol....

[Andy'smom]

We made sure to send our kids out of this state for college! They aren’t moonbats and we wanted to keep it that way.

[Mears]

“They heap scorn on the working-class “townies” but often decide to settle here. “

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But the working class townies have primarily voted Democrat for about 100 years.

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