If you read the DUmmy threads on CFA carefully, you get the distinct impression that although they don't care for the guy's position, his food tastes too good to boycott.
That's a distinct possibility - flavor trumping "principle". Also, people who are
INTO politics trend not to be tolerant of a loser, and the foredoomed effort to boycott CfA was a
big-time LOSER! At the time CfA was just starting a significant expansion; the closest CfA to San Jose, at the time, was 1.5-2 hours' drive away (Fairfield, for the terminally curious). Now there are 4 in Silicon Valley. Usually losers in such matters
HATE the winners, but maybe, as you suggest, CfA's flavor has taken the edge off many DU-folks' hatred.