Rick, is that because you are really two states?

We don't have a line across our state. We have gay enclaves and a hugely gay friendly straight population in the western part of the state, in the beautiful Berkshires (Amherst, Northampton) and of course Boston and Provincetown.

We have so many gay folks here that you really have to have a "I am a bigot" sign on you not to have at least some gay acquaintances, and probably some gay friends.

Our own rather Republican town has a lesbian minister and her church and the Unitarian church were performing same sex marriage days after they were made legal.