For those who thought Massachusetts was a liberal mecca

[Beer Snob-50]

I went to see Jeff Dunham with my son last night in springfield. The opening act was his associate the guitar guy. He said he was going to do a political song and launched into a song about how he loved the AZ immigration policy that was passed. It sounded like 99% of the crowd loved it. mY son looked at me and said that it looked like he and i were the only two in the area that didnot approve.

What happened to my liberal home!

[HopeHoops]

1. Hell, I worked in MA over 10 years ago (lived in NH) and even THEN it was going GOP.

[Deep13]

2. The large Puerto Rican immigrant population there...

...has a lot of Anglo residents feeling like they are being maginalized. I'm not saying they are being marginalized, only that many of them feel that way.

[dawg]

3. 20% difference

There is probably 20% of difference between Mass. and Georgia. It's just that our "winner-take-all" electoral system that makes one state seem so blue and the other so red.

[Old Troop]

4. If you look outside the 128 ring (and excepting places like Amherst, Harvard and a

few others), you could be in Georgia.

[JonLP24]

5. Judge Bolton issued a preliminary junction on the controversial parts of the law

back in July. A three judge panel will hear the appeal case in November. So hopefully it will go away permanently.

[rainbow4321]

6. Maybe it is a state like Texas...some areas make you feel like you are in a blue

state (Austin, urban Dallas) and other places (where I live, unfortuntely) remind you of just how red, red, red, the state can be.

[Alexander]

7. Springfield? You mean where Sheriff Joe Arpaio is from?

Western Massachusetts is hardly a liberal bastion.

[Kat45]

8. Western MA is not liberal

The Greater Boston area is the more liberal region, the state as a whole is not as liberal as its reputation--though we are the only state who voted for George McGovern in 1972 (maybe that's where the reputation came from).

[struggle4progress]

9. I lived in the Boston area in the 70s when the racists were rioting against integration

There are some jackasses everywhere