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you can't explain our politics by talking about 'red states' and

and red vs blue have become much more about density, with blue dots at America's cities, surrounded by field of red.. The reason why House of Representatives fell out of Republican control in this election was not just because blue states behaved like blue states, or..

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yes, there's a political realignment. just look at the republican wins

In short, Mahoning Valley has shifted from blue to purple and Franklin County flipped from red to blue.. ... if you lived in area, where suburbs, exurbs, and blue-collar neighborhoods overlap each other, you voted more for Republicans.. ..

maybe it’s time for america to split up

The in manufacturing and energy jobs on one side of the border and the guarantee of free government-sponsored education and medical care on the other created incentive for families to split — with one spouse working in Red Fed and the other, usually with in tow, collecting benefits in Blue Fed (..

racial politics

These overall Democratic gains seem roughly what might be expected for the midterm and nothing at all like the blue wave that had seemed possible few months earlier, before the bitter over Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination greatly re-energized Republican base.. ..

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