CURT JOHNSON: Salt Lake City — Here this week to participate in a meeting of the national Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS), I find a region reveling in dramatic change. The political map colors Salt Lake City “red”, but enough urban values usually seen as “blue” show up too. That blend colors this place a [...]
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MICRO POLITICS: The 2004 Presidential Vote in Small-Town America
ROBERT LANG: In 2004, the Bush campaign painted the town red—Republican red. The president swept the vote in the nation’s small towns and cities, which the U.S. Census Bureau now officially labels as “micropolitan areas” (or Micros). Bush’s micropolitan voting edge in Ohio exceeded his winning margin in the state by over 18,000 ballots. The [...]