I see from you are from an area that escaped Massachusetts rule, so perhaps you simply projected, thinking that Nantucket must have similarly used its distance to do the same.
Hahahah!!
It wasn't that though. Probably just leapt to the false belief on my own imagination. I knew it was an "ocean island," and also nearby Martha's Vinyard. See it all from the air from time to time, PWM/LGA or similar.