Well of course; no place is “perfect” either way. How do you think I feel being in central MD? Chances are that NEers - metro Boston - are supplying plenty of leftism to their teams.
My father and his whole big family grew up in ME/NY, and many of them still live there, I worked and lived there a while. Plenty of leftists (not in HIS family, but even my aunt-by-marriage still in ME is a Canadian leftist who keeps fawning over the Moslems in their neighboring Lewiston).
Yeah, living in Maryland is behind enemy lines as well.