Reply #2: Boston cops are a breed apart [View All]

[Warpy]

...and tended to swing to the hard right during the 1960s and stayed there during the busing fiasco int he 1970s. They live outside the city in places like West Roxbury and Hyde Park, working class suburbs. They are GOP because they are still fighting the unwashed hippies, even though most of those hippies fled the city 25 years ago, abandoning it to yuppies who gentrified all the old rooming houses back into chichi mansions.

Boston is home to lots of colleges, big and small, and those cops spend a lot of their time curtailing the exuberance of the average college kid away from home for the first time. They see the Young Repuglican types as being more orderly (even though the only difference is that they get toasted and puke all over everything while dressed in suits and ties). This may be another reason they cling to the GOP. GOP drunks wear the uniform of the ruling class.

Like any cops, there are good ones and bad ones and the majority in the middle. The above may explain why they're suckers for the wrong party.