Corner of Vinton & Dorchester Streets near Andrew Square, 9:39 a.m.The late great Senator from Minnesota?
This is not your father's Southie, that's for damn sure.
Incidentally, 50 feet up the block another car sported a "North Dakota" bumper sticker.
If I hadn't been on a walk to spend 130 bucks at the car tow lot, I would have said it was my kind of morning.
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The same could be said for Boston as a whole. These days, it appears to me that most "Bostonians" are one or two generations removed from somewhere else. For years now, I have felt like a foreigner in my own "home" state. Glad for you, though.
Ah...sweetness to see that WWWD is a bumper sticker! And a ND one, as well? Heartening!
@squigkato. Truthfully, while glad to see a bit of Midwesternism here ... it's more that Wellstone's populist liberalism would not have gone over in this hood a generation or 2 ago. :-)
But I'm glad to see he still has clout, even 6 years removed....
@Karin. Good point. Afraid the combination of the busing issue of the mid-1970's, of which I still retain childhood televised memories, and the politics of former Senate president William Bulger enforced a certain rightward drift in the voting of Southie, as well as my former neighborhood in Lynn, to your north. Became "Reagan Democrats".
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