Tinge of blue

New Yorkers sometimes like to demonize the "red states" as full of rubes who have been tricked into being conservative. Those of us New Yorkers with liberal relatives and friends living in states like Texas and Colorado and Virginia, however, know that the red state/blue state dichotomy is much more complicated that those colored coded maps would lead us to believe. The New York Times has an interesting article about Arvada, Colorado, that shows just how complex the politics in those big blocks of red can be.