I live in New England and this doesn't ring true for me. I think New England is very tolerant (even in the rural bits, which there are plenty of), and has a lon

I live in New England and this doesn't ring true for me. I think New England is very tolerant (even in the rural bits, which there are plenty of), and has a long history of tolerance, but I wouldn't confuse that with "liberalism". There's a ton of die-hard Democrat Catholics in New England, for example. I grew up Catholic, and I hardly associate it with liberalism, but I don't think I've ever met a Republican Catholic Charlie Baker is exceptionally popular, fiscal conservatism is clearly not frowned upon. Reading the WSJ does not make you a pariah, but even the Republicans here don't like the national Republicans.