• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    8 months ago

    i really must be lucky because my mum and dad are as liberal and accepting as can be. i guess i was just lucky to grow up in massachusetts and attend a pretty liberal methodist church. my pastor growing up even hand wrote me a letter when i came out as trans and apologised for how some of the church needs to change.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      How close did you grow up to Boston, or did your parents live in a city for a period of time? The closer you get to a city, the more liberal the population becomes, and there are some pretty backwoods areas of Massachusetts. My dad was conservative until he went to Boston College and worked at the bank collecting loans from the poorer sections of the city. Even Cape Cod had MAGA protesters yelling at the Bourne Bridge about the plan to house immigrants on the Air Force base for all 4 years of Trump’s reign of terror, and I could probably still find the Trump 2016 flag that I used to drive by all the time.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        8 months ago

        i was always outside of worcester actually so i only got to go into boston occasionally i grew up in grafton, northbridge, and millbury and went to church in shrewsbury. :)

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          8 months ago

          That’s pretty similar to me, though I grew up just over the bridges on the Cape. I always thought we were in a super liberal area being in Massachusetts (plus we were like halfway between P-Town and Boston), but as I got older, I was shocked by just how conservative it is there. It’s like a bastion of snowbirds’ summer homes and retirees who all care more about their property taxes than the kids who live there.

          • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            yeah millbury tends to me more democratic but then auburn and leicester is more republican :P

            honestly i do want to move overseas just as a goal but if that doesn’t happen, i’d love to move to salem or northampton