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A Blue Tinge in the West
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 25, 2005 01:09pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Monday, April 25, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Just as Americans have come to accept the idea of a gulf between red and blue states, a grass-roots (or tumbleweed) shift has begun to blur the colors in the Rockies and the Southwest.
The trend is evolutionary, not revolutionary. The GOP remains entrenched in Idaho and Utah. Most state legislatures are Republican and the presidential vote was solid crimson. But statehouse shifts of the last several years are signals of a changing Western political identity and independence. The social conservatism that keeps the South red may not be enough for the West. Old-fashioned individual liberty and Democratic populism are getting a hearing. |
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