[LostInBayport]

Believe it or not, about half the people on the forum literally hate California and want people here to die.

I think the same is true for for those of us in Massachusetts. Typically one third of the votes are cast for Republicans in our elections, but we are lumped in with the left to share in the FR hatred of all things New England.

(and spare me the "a Republican in Massachusetts is a democrat everywhere else" replies; I know many of them are awful)

[SoCal Pubbie]

I don’t hate people anywhere based on their voting patterns. I am amazed, often disappointed and sometimes fearful of the direction they want the country to go. But I don’t hope they die a horrible death or lose their homes in flood or fire, or the flash of a thermonuclear bomb.

Some here revel in those possibilities.

[trisham]

Amen to that.

[Wuli]

“but we are lumped in with the left to share in the FR hatred of all things New England”

Again more hyperbole and too little truth.

“All things New England”??

On one political point alone you are wrong. Are Maine and New Hampshire part of New England? Yes. Are their governors Republican? Yes. Maybe Massachusetts folk don’t consider Maine and New Hampshire part of New England?

And more importantly tons of Freepers ONLY displeasure with places like Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and sometimes Rhode Island is not those places as the places the contain but yes always the politics that tends to run them. While that may not be YOUR fault, try as you might, I think you error, greatly, in saying most Freepers hate “ALL things New England.”

[stars & stripes forever]

[I think the same is true for for those of us in Massachusetts.

People think all of ILLINOIS is CHICAGO. The crime is moving our way, but there are still conservatives fighting the good fight.