Posted on 07/30/2022 5:33:23 AM PDT by DoodleBob
.. Yet Massachusetts political elites should instead see (These stories of alienation and angst) as a flashing neon warning sign that our ultra-blue political culture is bleeding purple at the grassroots—a slow-but-steady drip, drip, drip that seems likely to be accelerated by fallout from the pandemic and economic pressures....And in a state with only 460,000 registered Republicans, Donald Trump won more than a million votes—twice.
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There’s also been backlash among parents against long-standing efforts to bring sexual health education to public schools, a topic that began bubbling up again after Boston and Worcester adopted new curricula last year. Mayra Diaz of Charlestown, a Democrat who runs the immigrant support group Manos Unidas Saliendo Adelante (“United Hands Going Forward”), says she was left angry and frustrated by the cold shoulder that Charlestown High School officials gave her when she sought details of the sex education her daughter was receiving there. “Parents are excluded from information because the students have rights, so they don’t tell me anything,” she says. “They don’t know how to work together, and they don’t care anything about the parents.”
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Beyond school-related issues, there’s also the question of support for Israel...in an era of increasingly aggressive anti-Israel rhetoric from the left and a surge in anti-Semitic attacks in Massachusetts, Rausch finds herself “outwardly attacked,” she says, by “former supporters” for her qualified backing of the Jewish state.
Case in point: When a shadowy left-wing group recently posted an interactive online map highlighting the addresses of Jewish institutions and others deemed sympathetic toward Israel “so we can dismantle them,” the site said, Rausch was appalled that people she had worked with and considered friends didn’t share her horror.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonmagazine.com ...
The state’s most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, has declined from 95.4% in 1970 to 67.6% in 2020. As of 2011, non-Hispanic whites were involved in 63.6% of all the births, while 36.4% of the population of Massachusetts younger than age 1 was minorities (at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white). One major reason for this is that non-Hispanic whites in Massachusetts recorded a total fertility rate of 1.36 in 2017, the second-lowest in the country after neighboring Rhode Island.
8.2% African-American, 8.2 % Asian-American, and 12.6% Hispanic.
I agree.
When I used my Obama 2008 Vote Fraud tool, it was apparent that the Dems pumped up their 2020 "turnout" in Massachusetts to run up the total Democrat "vote" nationally.
This was part of the recipe for getting 81 million "votes".
My conclusion from my tool would be that Massachusetts is actually redder than it appears, as this author has written.
Also MA, but I live in a conservative town with a town square hosting summer concerts and lit Christmas trees and creche. We vote on paper ballots and everyone knows everyone. Closest thing to growing up in the midwest I’ve ever found. And, yes, people of any sense avoid the crazy, liberal parts of the state. But everyone in MA is not living in the progressive dream world and here, in our little conservative island, we’ll keep voting against the crazies.
It doesn’t matter so long as the states are all using computer voting machines for elections. Everything that happens in real life is nothing to an algorithm that can be changed to suit those who provide the machines. I am more and more coming to expect a Democrat blow-out in the vote counting this November.
5% vote switch in 2020 got the presidency but it wasn’t extended to the Congressional races. It will likely be 10% this year and extend the length of the ticket.
Most small towns everywhere—if they are not uber rich and not near to cities— tend to be conservative.
Reagan took Massachusetts twice, 1980 and 1984. He said the right things that resonated with blue collar workers. Remember there are more unenrolled party voters than republicans and Democrats combined.
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