Can you please explain the blue to the left for people not from MA?
The Berkshires are blue for two reasons.
1) That is the area where Coakley was from.
2) That’s a liberal corridor, sort of a southern extension of Vermont, attracting the same mix of granola-eating former New Yorkers, Bostonians, etc.
3) There are more cows than people out in Western Massachusetts, so it didn’t affect the total very much.