That would be amazing, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. Massachusetts is a much more elastic and open minded state than Deplorable Alabama.
Yes, of course. South Boston provided the civilized model as to how folks should act in the face of court-ordered busing to achieve school integration back in the 1970s, did it not?
People don't get it. I keep saying that Scott Brown won due to poor turnout and not much else. He won in 2010 with less votes than Romney got in 2012 and Romney got 37% of the vote. He was luckily running against a very bad and uninspiring candidate in Martha Coakley, which further depressed Democratic turnout. The national environment didn't help Brown because he won over Democrats, it helped him because it depressed Democratic turnout and increased Republican turnout.