What were the political and social characteristics of the New England colonies Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts?

Of course, this has to be a very general answer because we are talking about three different colonies and a long stretch of time...

Connecticut and Massachusetts were similar politically in that both were Puritan colonies with a close connection between church and state.  All three colonies were pretty democratic, but RI was much more religiously tolerant than the other two.

Socially, the NE colonies are usually distinguished from the others because of 1) their Puritan majority and 2) the fact that they were founded for religious/moral reasons rather than for economic ones.  They were more church-centered and more settled and family-oriented than the other colonies, especially at first.

Of course, this is grossly over-generalized...