1.) Amherst, Massachusetts, is named after Lord Jeffery Amherst, who conducted one of the earliest biological attacks by giving small-pox infected blankets to Native Americans.
2.) Amherst, Massachusetts, is a college town in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts - a region more liberal than Cambrdige, MA, and Brookline, MA, combined. Only Provincetown, MA - with its abundance of male Cher impersonators in ass-less chaps - is more liberal than Amherst, MA