The Greater Boston Area has, to this day, many race
conflicts between the Irish and Black communities. It is very
liberal in politics, but it can be very conservative in practice.
Gays get elected, but no one wants to be near them. The city is
heavily Catholic, but the Church is constantly criticized, taunted, and
even hated after all the bugger priests.
The Church still only plays a major role in Boston
society because their schools are pretty good and they offer an
alternative to public schools. Catholic schools became the norm
for white Bostonians after bussing. There is a lot of racial
issues when a top football school like Xaverian Brothers play a
predominantly black-school. The Boston public schools are at least 85%
black. The old Brahmin-English people sort of sit in the
wealthy areas if they are well to do.
Unlike New York, Boston as an actual city is very
tiny(600,000 people), but controls a lot of other neighboring cities
and sub-urbs forming the Greater Boston Area. This area is
heavily white. However, Boston proper is largely black.