Blue or white: What color is your city's collar? As local work forces evolve, civic identities stick[ Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:39:22 GMT ]In a city still packing a wicked-hard edge, an old maxim lives on: “Boston is about sports, politics and revenge.” From the clout of its labor unions to the grit of its Red Sox, Beantown remains synonymous with working class. And the locals like it that way.