re: #307 HappyWarrior

It really does seem the red states/regions are growing more red. One could argue the same for the blue ones but I don’t really think that’s the case given Baker and Hogan’s re-election victories and that Connecticut was a tough fight.

But blue state Republicans are a lot less extreme than red state Republicans; I can’t imagine Hogan could win in Md if he was a Tea Partier. The more extreme states are generally the ones that don’t have a large enough urban population to counter balance the rural whites. Kentucky is very rural and has a small African-American population, a large percentage of which is disenfranchised due to prior felonies.