I'm in MA, where should an actual conservative have the temerity to announce as a Republican, the MA GOP will quickly recruit a liberal to primary him and throw its support to the liberal. MA has a lot of conservatives, just never a conservative candidate to vote for!
I wouldn’t say that Massachusetts has a lot of conservatives, or else, the Massachusetts GOP wouldn’t continue to be as leftist as it is. Ditto, with the total number of elected Mass Republicans, at each and every political level, who are not conservative-past, present, and future, too. Everywhere that it exists, I see RINO Republicanism as its own political party.