Massachusetts is bad now, probably just as bad as California...But I would suggest that you have a short memory. Liberalism started to take a stranglehold in Massachusetts in the '30s and '40s because the damn Irish really began to have influence, but both Massachusetts and Georgia both voted Republican and Democrat often-on through the '60s-80's (MA voted for Reagan in 1980, unlike Georgia). Both voted for Clinton in '92. It wasn't until the '96 presidential election that the modern demarcation between left and right became so clear, and Georgia swung the right way while Massachusetts fully succumbed to the left, again because of the hysterical influence of all the damn Irish we've got crawling around. In another 30 years, Massachusetts might well swing right again.
The Kennedy's are bad, and Ted was the most destructive -- but Nunn did as much damage as Ted in his own way.
Not to mention...Massachusetts militiamen started the United States of America while Georgians were sitting on their hands. It took Georgians plenty of time and some rather shocking butchery to get on board.
I would also add that all jest aside I have nothing against Georgia and would much rather live down there than in Massachusetts just now.
But when someone starts off with "Damned Yankees", well, I'm not going to bite my tongue.