The list of early-adopter Massachusetts communities that have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day is about what you’d expect: Amherst, Northampton, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville. School committees in Mashpee and Pittsfield have also jumped on board. But now the school committee in Framingham is considering making the switch, and it will be interesting to see what happens in a more politically mainstream community.

Framingham is Democrat country, but it’s no Amherst or Cambridge. Republicans have made respectable showings there. Scott Brown ran about 1,000 votes behind Martha Coakley in Framingham when he was elected to the US Senate in 2010. Charlie Baker ran about 1,700 votes behind Coakley in Framingham in 2014 when he was first elected governor; he cruised to victory there this year.