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The Moldy Massachusetts miracle: elitism doesn't work well in economic policy either.
A midst the coverage of John Kerry's nomination in Boston last summer, the region that produced him--New England--received remarkable little intelligent scrutiny. For the most part, the area was portrayed as quaint, idiosyncratic, and brainy, a kind of screwball seafood stew of Harvard, the Red Sox, and ethnic diversity spanning Yankees, Italians, Irish, and a host of more colorful recent newcomers.
Some suggested that New England also provides a compelling economic model for the rest of the country. "What New England has achieved economically," gushed Newsweek's usually sensible Robert Samuelson, "is precisely what Democrats aspire to do politically."
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