Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Asking 'Why do they hate us?'

In today's Boston Globe a Blue columnist in the Bluest paper of the Bluest state contemplates the recently documented shrinking population of Massachusetts and asks:
“But something bigger than the price-tag on a house in Brookline may lurk behind the population shift. New England's well-established elitism and sense of intellectual superiority do not translate into tolerance for divergent viewpoints. Maybe the holders of divergent views are deciding to relocate to more open-minded locales? Perhaps the attitude, 'Massachusetts has been getting it right for more than 300 years,' is a turnoff."
More tolerant and open-minded than proud citizens of the Hub of the Universe and the Athens of America? How is that possible?

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