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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: November 12, 2011, 01:27:55 PM »

Well, the Boston-area universities and small college towns (Amherst comes to mind) are really liberal/left-wing, and the WASPy towns in MA tend to be really socially liberal (more so than in the past, when they were bastions of Rockefeller Republicanism. Tongue ) The working-class Catholics throughout the state are loyal Democrats, except when someone like Reagan or Scott Brown is the candidate. Soi you have many aspects to the Democratic electorate in MA, some more liberal than others-there's a definite class difference in degrees of liberalism.
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All Along The Watchtower
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« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2011, 07:28:09 PM »

Massachusetts is a pretty liberal state on the social issues:

1. They have the highest support for gay marriage right now: 60% in PPP's latest MA poll
2. Voters decriminalized marijuana with 65% of the vote in 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Sensible_Marijuana_Policy_Initiative#Results
3. They'll probably legalize physician-assisted suicide in 2012 if it makes the ballot: http://www.dignity2012.org/

I'll be interested to see the margin of victory/defeat for that last one.

B-b-but teh Catholics!
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