My vision may be clouded from living in Smuggler's Cove among the Mooncussers for so long, but it looks to me like the small government guys are losing power.
If I lived in the Communist State of RI, and being a Masshole that is saying something, I would feel the same way.
To put it another way, New England, except NH, are the Warsaw Pact of the 21st Century. When these places have driven have driven their citizens (proles?) into penurity, set up the Republican razor.