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lol none of those states other than possibly Indiana are moving rightward and Minnesota has a Dem governor, Mark Dayton. 2010 was a fluke election with low turnout among traditional Democratic groups (liberals, youth and minorities). Look at how 2 GOP lawmakers were recalled in Wisconsin in 2011 with Scott Walker next. All those states other than Indiana will vote Obama in 2012.
Your job must depend on it since you live in Montgomery County, MD.
Kansas continues to get more and more conservative
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Originally Posted by GraniteStater
Try Kansas. Welcome to Brownbackistan.
Most residents hate living there. No correlation obviously...
Kansas continues to get more and more conservative, especially after the 2012 election. Democrats and moderate republicans are a rarity in Kansas anymore. In fact, many positions are unchallenged and conservative republicans automatically win. If one wants a theocratic state headed toward ultra-conservatism, it's the state for them. Many are getting out of Kansas, no wonder it's losing residents all of the time. Kansas has become a national joke. Too bad, there are some nice people in Kansas and parts of the state are beautiful.
Brownback is a big government social conservative. Kansas just loves electing those types over and over again.
In Kansas the electorate is like dealing with programmed robots. They go to the polls, look for republicans and vote ... except now it has changed. They go to the polls and look for the most socially conservative republicans they can find. And there is no doubt Governor Brownback will be governor for a very long time. They seem to like these types and seem to like being beat on by their government and the cornered wealth of the state.
Seems like Arizona has gotten more conservative according to the media, but I've only visited a few times so I wouldn't know for sure. In reality, Arizona appears to be more moderate for the most part, compared to "traditional conservative" states.
Kansas continues to get more and more conservative, especially after the 2012 election. Democrats and moderate republicans are a rarity in Kansas anymore. In fact, many positions are unchallenged and conservative republicans automatically win. If one wants a theocratic state headed toward ultra-conservatism, it's the state for them. Many are getting out of Kansas, no wonder it's losing residents all of the time. Kansas has become a national joke. Too bad, there are some nice people in Kansas and parts of the state are beautiful.
It really is too bad I agree. Kansas has morphed from a more Republican version of Iowa politically to an Evangelical style southern conservative Republican voting trend. The conservatives never seem to leave Kansas and many that are moderate to liberal leave as fast as they can. This has created a big problem for the image of the state as it keeps trending well out of the mainstream politically compared to the US as a whole. Economically, the state is not impressive at all outside of wealthy Johnson County, two university cities, and stable small cities. Statism and decline is the norm everywhere else because so many people cannot afford the land prices to expand farm/ranch (land prices have gone through the roof), wages are very low in most of rural Kansas, and the social culture is very closed off, even being a rural area.
I think it has something to do with the intense sun frying brains in Texas.
Outside the urban areas (speaking specifically of Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio) and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas will vote for any Republican. It doesnt really matter who it is. Reanimated Jeffrey Dahmer could run as a Republican and win.
This is a map that shows how states have shifted from the 1996 election to 2008 with respect to the national average in presidential elections. Note the colors are reversed.
Red - strong democratic shift
Pink - slow democratic shift
Light Blue - slow republican shift
Dark Blue - strong republican shift
It doesn't include 2012 but the same trend has pretty much continued in 2012, although Obama turned a few of the light blue states into pink ones, and VA and NC from pink to red.
The Republicans have probably locked up the Mississippi corridor, and the Dems have secured Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and are slowly trading Ohio and Florida away for Virginia and NC.
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Kansas continues to get more and more conservative
They vote like programmed robots.
Why they vote him in again and again is beyond me to grasp.
