OK- I will put it this way- everyone I talk too who has voted for a kennedy or a Barney Frank does so knowing that they bring home the pork and doesn't care what they do on the national level.! The biggest project in the nation is the "BIG DIG" and it employs 30,000 local workers and hundreds of thousands of contractors (hell - my company earns 40 grand a month on the project and we just rent computers to the big dig). Talk to people from Mass. They are more redneck than rednecks! In fact they are called "wombats" up here- a term for a Northern Redneck.
Remember busing? That was Boston. We do a good job of hiding how conservative we are but we do it. And it is a nasty ethnic deal - not spoken about of course- but well known and written about in such conservative Journals as National Review.
I am amazed when I see a Mass Congressman propose legislation on social issues on the federal level that would never see the light of day on the local level.
I have family from Massachusetts. I've also seen the big dig in progress. It's pretty incredible. So, you're basically saying that your national reps get in the same way Dasshole does? 'Cause they bring home the bacon. Sounds reasonable enough. I've always thought northern rednecks were called "woodchucks", at least that's what they're called in VT.