The district in which I grew up sent a smarmy union-backed Democrat back to DC every 2 yrs. like clockwork for a quarter century. In a heavily Catholic town, he never met an abortion he didn’t endorse, and actually had the audacity to keep showing up at Mass and at church events to press the flesh.
The area up here is at least modestly conservative in terms of “social” issues but has a long history of union support due to railroad, mining, and shipping industries. A lot of people just automatically pull the “D” without even giving it further consideration. In general, the people up here are good people but politically they are imbeciles.