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Blue-state Republicans?


Of all the dismaying dis·may  
tr.v. dis·mayed, dis·may·ing, dis·mays
1. To destroy the courage or resolution of by exciting dread or apprehension.

2.
 facts the Democrats have had to face since November, the toughest for me is the trend in blue-state exurbia ex·ur·bi·a  
n.
A typically exurban area.

Noun 1. exurbia - a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia
. In December, the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
 noted that the proportion of California counties voting Republican has reached two-thirds. The winter 2005 issue of City Journal adds that about 75 percent of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 counties now vote Republican, as do, amazingly, about 90 percent of those in Pennsylvania. To top it all off, former Rep. Tim Roemer says that 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties voted for Bush in November.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills; traditionally Democratic states
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2005
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