Mixing Rednecks and Blue States
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One of the year's weirdest and most exciting arena tours makes a scramble of the notion of red America versus blue America.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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America's growing diversity has reached nearly every state.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By Scott Leith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb.
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Many newly registered voters with uncertain allegiances are the focus of an intense tug of war in closely contested states.
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun.
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Michigan, the ancestral home of so-called "Reagan Democrats," is back to its old ways. The Great Lake State is filled with blue-collar workers stung by the ailing economy but wary of Democratic stands on social issues such as abortion, gay rights and gun control.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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Women who live in red states helped deliver the 2004 election, but their blue-state sisters are besting them when the measure is economic, political and health equity.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun.
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IN THE HEADLINES ... Republicans focusing on South Carolina as next stand, Democrats on Nevada ... Romney's Michigan GOP presidential win helped by party, Bush loyalists.
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New regulatory ordinances hint at a shift from 'red' to 'blue,' brought on by newcomers, experts say.
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Up here in the rogue state of Massachusetts, life goes on. Politicians from the American outback run against its diversity, its liberalism, painting the state as an outsider. And assorted Vandals, Huns, and Visigoths from New York batter at its civilized gates, presumably forever.
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If blue states care less about moral values, why are divorce rates so low in the bluest of the blue states?
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Romney says economic focus that won in Michigan can play in the South ... Obama says he'd change approach to drug war ... Huckabee backs away from hiatus on immigration ... Clinton says preparation for president should be more than inspirational speeches ... With Southern contest looming, Thompson goes on the attack ... Edwards tells Nevada to start 'sea wave of change' by supporting him ... Florida rallies for Rudy ... McCain looks to appeal to South Carolina's reservists, retired military