Gee I hadn't heard that. Could you provide a link to where you got that information from?
Ther was a Suffolk university poll leading up to the Jan. special election with Palin’s numbers. I’ll try to find it.
In New England, being an “independent woman” means you graduated from one of the Seven Sisters and still go to reunions, took more than one course in “Women’s Studies”, smoke cigars, teach or work for a nonprofit, live with cats or if you got married (to a man) you kept your last name and plan to hyphenate the name of the in vitro baby you will bear as you approach 40 - or 50