There's certainly an aspect of information feedback. People who don't get feedback of the consequences of bad decisions are prone to Leftism. So, being wealthy and isolated is a big avenue of attack for Leftism.
However, that doesn't explain some of the shit in New England. There were major Leftist political fights regarding "Forced Bussing" in Boston back in the 70's and 80's. Basically, a Leftist judge used desperate impact theory (not formally stated at the time), to justify mandatory busing of different race students to other school districts, regardless of geographic location.
NE kind of exploded into nasty allegations of racism and all sorts of other crazy shit. If you didn't support bussing you were a racist. If you did, you were a good person. A lot of Bostonians certainly had huge problems with that slander, and there were a lot of very public, very angry protests regarding bussing at the time. But it wasn't at all clear who would come out on top of the issue. The Progressive racial activists, or the working-class Bostonians.
Wikipedia actually calls it the "Desegregation Crisis" despite the fact that there was no segregation in Massachusetts. The situation devolved into violence and even riots multiple times. And yet, for nearly ten years, in a state as white and homogenous as Massachusetts, the pollical volatility continued. Most of Mass. is Anglo, but a large minority is also Irish. I get the very strong feeling that if we could study it, there would have been a ton of Leftist Anglos on the side of the Progressives who were probably pushing hard for the racialist laws.
There's certainly an aspect of information feedback. People who don't get feedback of the consequences of bad decisions are prone to Leftism. So, being wealthy and isolated is a big avenue of attack for Leftism.
However, that doesn't explain some of the shit in New England. There were major Leftist political fights regarding "Forced Bussing" in Boston back in the 70's and 80's. Basically, a Leftist judge used desperate impact theory (not formally stated at the time), to justify mandatory busing of different race students to other school districts, regardless of geographic location.
NE kind of exploded into nasty allegations of racism and all sorts of other crazy shit. If you didn't support bussing you were a racist. If you did, you were a good person. A lot of Bostonians certainly had huge problems with that slander, and there were a lot of very public, very angry protests regarding bussing at the time. But it wasn't at all clear who would come out on top of the issue. The Progressive racial activists, or the working-class Bostonians.
Wikipedia actually calls it the "Desegregation Crisis" despite the fact that there was no segregation in Massachusetts. The situation devolved into violence and even riots multiple times. And yet, for nearly ten years, in a state as white and homogenous as Massachusetts, the pollical volatility continued. Most of Mass. is Anglo, but a large minority is also Irish. I get the very strong feeling that if we could study it, there would have been a ton of Leftist Anglos on the side of the Progressives who were probably pushing hard for the racialist laws.