‘Sodom on the Bay’?

Wiccan jewelry. Popular in Salem?

“To hear {George W. Bush} tell it, Massachusetts is not a state now in its fourth Republican governor in a row or one with one of the lowest tax burdens in the country…but some sort of Sodom on the Bay, with 90 percent tax rates, mandatory Wicca ceremonies in the public schools, and an anarcho-syndicalist majority in the state legislature. How could ‘real’ Americans be expected to accept a candidate from such a place?”

— Liberal columnist Paul Waldman in 2004, when Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was the Democratic presidential nominee.