Oh THAT Boston Herald. LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Okay scummy Trump supporters. They figured us out. LOLOLOLOLOLOL! WTH ever happened to the NE corner of this country where this whole thing started?
You might be thinking of the Boston Globe. The Herald can be surprisingly conservative for it’s location.
Answer is it didn't really start there, not first settlers and not the beginnings of the Revolutionary War. Those were both in the South. Had to have a different national mythos after the Civil War, and so history was revised.