The now-staunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had
virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other
hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the
opposite end of the political spectrum. Texas is one of the most
conservative states, while California has become one of today's
most liberal bastions. These are the most dramatic cases, but
notable shifts in voting patterns have occurred throughout the
western states in recent decades - shifts so varied and complex
that they have, until now, eluded the attention focused on the
drastic examples of the South and Northeast. Bringing clarity to
the remarkably mixed yet poorly understood map of America's red,
blue, and purple western half, Color Coded presents the first
comprehensive history of political change and stability in the
region between 1950 and 2016. The West, in Walter Nugent's
analysis, includes nineteen states: the thirteen that the U.S.
Census Bureau calls the Western Region - roughly from the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific, as well as off-shore Alaska and Hawaii -
plus the six Great Plains states from North Dakota south to Texas.
Consulting official voting results of more than 5,300 state and
national elections, as well as newspaper reports, oral histories,
public documents, and other sources, Nugent reveals the
ever-shifting patterns that have defined western politics in modern
times. Geography, culture, history, political trajectories, and the
charisma of key political actors have all played their part in
these changes - and will, Nugent asserts, continue to do so for the
foreseeable future. A powerful, exhaustively researched study of
modern political organization, party development, and shifting
voter blocs in the West, Color Coded deftly charts, as well, the
profound red-blue tensions that have defined modern America.
Returns for the 5,300-plus elections on which the book is based,
covering the nineteen western states between 1950 and 2016, are
compiled in the book's appendix.
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