BY FROMA HARROP There was a time when New England sent lots of Republicans to Washington. These were fiscally conservative but socially liberal “Rockefeller Republicans,” also found in the Northwest, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. As the party turned socially conservative and fiscally reckless, many Yankees departed. The trend culminated in the George W. Bush Administration, which seemed to stand for everything New Englanders didn’t. The 2008 election felled the region’s last surviving GOP House member, […]
Springtime For New England Republicans?
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