Point 1: ^ - although there are a fair number of Sox fans in the Pioneer Valley. I put it down to the evil influence of so called institutions of higher learning. Their presence has diluted the pure blood of western Mass with lib'ruls and other self-annointed elitists from the east. Fortunately, the mountains have buffered the westermost county from such poisonous rubbish.

Point 2: Too far west. As someone who has lived in Pittsfield, Lenox, Westfield, West Springfield, Springfield, Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Belchertown and Waltham, I would place it no further west than Palmer.