My wife's side of the family (uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins) live in the Buffalo area.
OMG those people are retarded. Anyone who's not a liberal pro-abortion/homosexuality is OK Catholic is a Nazi to them.
Here's the rub: my wife's family escaped Hitler twice during WW2. First leaving Germany, then being chased out of Hungary after half the men were conscripted into the German army.
Yikes, I'd think they'd know better.
Unfortunately, you are correct. Much of Buffalo is the same mindset and economic doldrums as Scranton PA or Youngstown OH. Out of work blue collar Democrat Catholic on unemployment or SSDI who holds secular liberal views. If it were not for EBT or Social Security, the entire regions would starve.