The continuity of red and blue designations over time reflects some level of partisan stability. From 2016 to 2020, for example, only five states switched parties in the presidential election, and ...

I cover the intersection of state & federal policy and politics. Migration trends and population growth rates for U.S. cities and states are instructive, as they’re indicative of the relative ...

10."I live in a red part of a very blue state, Maryland. It's great because there's a much lower crime rate than the rest of the state, like Baltimore, which is considered a blue city. The blue ...

these so-called red states have a high murder rate, and they only focused on murder. But when you drill down and see that the murder rates in those states are driven primarily by the blue cities ...

Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, Republican governors would ...

Massachusetts and Maryland, for example, are still very much blue states in policy terms despite their Republican governors. That said, state governors and the current state legislatures have had ...