Check out holyoke some time. Frigging third world hopeless place. Western Massachusetts is a sad place, like upper state New York.
It doesn’t matter who the locals elect, they have been slated for depopulation by the urban based controlling leftist apparatus.
My experience with Holyoke is limited to its mall, Mount Tom, and the dinosaur footprints. I don’t think I’ve ever seen much of the city itself.
As for Western MA in general, I’m going to both agree and disagree. Some decent places there (and I don’t just mean in the Berkshires, which I love except for the new age/hippy-dippy crap), but Boston/Cambridge controls the politics and some of the western cities are pretty bad as a result, that’s true.