I love the irony of it being warmer in New Hampshire.
There basically are three groups of people in Boston:
1. The “Boston Brahmin.” It’s impossible for most Americans to understand how classist Boston is. The name “Brahmin” is a reference to pre-Gandhi India, the only other society so hatefully classist. And that’s what BOSTONIANS call them. Think John Kerry and William Weld.
2. The Brahmin bitchy wanna-bes. By night, Sex, alcohol, black clothes. By day, type-A bitches that would shock Washingtonians. Madly socially liberal, but just to fit in. In reality, they’re profoundly racist. (I live, now, in Washington. Think Nancy Kerrigan’s somewhat unfair charicature.
3. Townies. Resentful of out-of-towners; they’re racist, which is misdirected anger, but they have reason to be angry. (Not at blacks, but at the Brahmin who used blacks to boot them out of their homes to bust up their communities. Certain neighborhoods in Charlestown were 100% white in 1970 and 100% black in 1990.)
4. Assorted outsiders: Blacks, Indians, new Irish immigrants, stranded Yankees fans. Hated by all sides, the’re actually quite friendly.
Hah! I added a fourth group and didn’t change the claim that there are “three groups of people in Boston.”