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Blue Metros, Red States - In the News
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USA TODAY | Blue payback? Major metropolitan areas in red states could swing the Senate to Democrats
In 2016, nearly all major metropolitan areas voted for Hillary Clinton, including the counties that generate nearly two-thirds of the U.S. economy. In 2018, voters in the nation’s big blue metros returned Democrats to the majority in the House and drove the party’s senate pick-ups in Arizona and Nevada. They also secured gubernatorial victories in several other states. Suburbs in particular played an outsized role in the blue shift. Read More >>
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NEWSWISE | Blue Metros, Red States: America’s Suburbs and the New Battleground in Presidential Politics
A U.S. map peppered with red and blue has become the unofficial logo of the presidential election in recent years. But it hasn’t always been that way, and, like much in politics, it’s a bit more complicated. Read More >>
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CNN | How 2020 may reconfigure politics in the Southwest
For years, the Southwest shimmered like a mirage to Democrats thirsting for a political breakthrough in the desert. Since 2004, steady gains have allowed them to establish a clear upper hand in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. But, until recently, they had been frustrated by their inability to extend those gains to the region's two biggest electoral prizes: Arizona and especially Texas. Read More >>
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BROOKINGS | The new politics of bluelining
For generations, redlining was used to designate neighborhoods—typically in urban areas with high concentrations of minority residents—as places banks should avoid offering home mortgages. The term originates from Federal Housing Administration maps developed in the 1930s where “red” labeled high-risk lending zones. To be “redlined” meant that households were structurally denied home loans and lost the opportunity to build wealth. Read More >>
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BROOKINGS | The 2020 election in blue metros and red states
In this special edition of the podcast, Bill Finan—director of the Brookings Institution Press—talks with two of the authors of a new Brookings press book that explores America’s current political division from demographic and geographic perspectives. Read More >>
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Blue Metros, Red States
The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States
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Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States, authored by UNLV faculty David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, and Karen A. Danielsen, with contributions from William E. Brown, Jr., John Hudak, and Molly Reynolds, is now available to the public. Blue Metros, Red States analyzes demographic trends, voting patterns, economic data, and the social characteristics of 27 major metropolitan areas in 13 swing states that will ultimately decide who is elected president in 2020 and which political party controls the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
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