New
England Republicans a dying breed, Times
claims
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Sunday November 26, 2006
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This It was a species as endemic to New England
as craggy seascapes and creamy clam chowder: the
moderate Yankee Republican," New York
Times reporter Pam Belluck writes on Monday
pages on of the paper, according to an advance
copy acquired by RAW STORY. Excerpts:
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Dignified in demeanor, independent in ideology
and frequently blue in blood, they were politicians
in the mold of Roosevelt and Rockefeller: socially
tolerant, environmentally enthusiastic, people
who liked government to keep its wallet close
to its vest and its hands out of social issues
like abortion and, in recent years, same-sex marriage.
But this election dealt the already fading New
England Republican an especially strong blow,
one that some fear will increase the divide between
the two parties nationally by removing a longstanding
bridge between them.
Of 22 members of the House of Representatives
from New England, only one is a Republican: Christopher
Shays of Connecticut, who eked out a victory while
two other Republicans from his state, Reps. Nancy
L. Johnson and Rob Simmons, lost to Democrats.
In Massachusetts, where the statehouse in Boston
had been steeped in Republican governors for 16
years, voters threw the party overboard like tea.
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