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Red Professor — (archived)

"I'd feel safer walking in virtually any neighborhood in Boston at midnight than in the "red" town in Kansas where I now live"

Spoken like a true downtowner. (Were you a student there, perhaps?) Have you been to Mattapan, or perhaps strolled Blue Hill Avenue late at night? Been to Charlestown lately? These are all parts of Boston -- the parts you don't see while ordering pizza slices at Quincy Market. Hey, I'll stroll around Fifth Avenue in New York anytime you like...if you'll do the same about 100 blocks north.

New England votes blue for a lot of reasons, not least among them the disproportionate number of universities and students. (Some 3% of the Commonwealth are students or university-related.) They also vote Blue because they still think, in some misguided way, that the Democrats are the party of working people. (How they believe this in a region that produced elitist nincompoops like Ted Kennedy, Mike Dukakis, and Claiborne Pell is beyond me, but ignorance is a powerful thing.)

New England, I would argue, is the exception that proves the rule: people who vote Blue simply because they're either too traditional or too elitist to vote otherwise ...no matter how much havoc it wreaks in the neighborhoods they don't have to live in.

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