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I moved to Boston last summer and have found the same thing. They simply are incapable of making logical connections between causes they support and politicians they elect. Like you, I have run into many pro-military, anti-gay agenda, anti-abortion Bostonians who adore Ted Kennedy. The degree of irrationality here is exceptionally high. I think a lot comes from the fact that to a far greater degree than other parts of the US, people here continue to hold to the idea that the Dem Party is essentially a religion, and you don't turn against your religion no matter what. Nowhere else do you hear so frequently that mantra about "My father was a Democrat, and my grandfather was a Democrat" blah blah blah.

The degree of irrationality here is exceptionally high.

Well said! Should be on our license plates.
"My father was a Democrat, and my grandfather was a Democrat" - How many times have I heard that. And they generalize about repubs. One GF of mine blamed Reagan for the Vietnam war!!

BTW - If you want to drive them crazy, ask them if they remember Edward W. Brooke. If they are lucky they will remember him as a black US Senator (3rd in history) from MA. The fact they can't seem to absorb is that he was a republican.
The first two black US Senators (Hiram Revels then Blanche K. Bruce were Republicans from MS (as in MISSISSIPPI - the heart of the south).