What is the difference between red and blue state?

Since around the 2000 United States presidential election, red states and blue states have referred to states of the United States whose voters predominantly choose either the Republican Party (red) or Democratic Party (blue) presidential and senatorial candidates.

Is North Carolina a red state or blue state?

Like most U.S. states, North Carolina is politically dominated by the Democratic and Republican political parties. North Carolina has 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and two seats in the U.S. Senate. North Carolina has voted Republican in nine of the last 10 presidential elections.

Is Alaska red or blue state?

Alaska regularly supports Republicans in presidential elections and has done so since statehood. Republicans have won the state’s electoral college votes in every election except Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 landslide. No state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate fewer times.

Where is the safest place to live in North Carolina?

Here are the 10 safest cities in North Carolina for 2021

• Pinehurst.
• Wake Forest.
• Davidson.
• Cary.
• Wendell.
• Winterville.
• Fuquay-Varina.
• Morrisville.

What does it mean to be a (.5) blue state?

(1) means they voted Blue or Red in all 4 past elections, while (.5) means they “defected” once. There’s only one (.5) Blue state above the average (and it’s close to it). In sharp contrast, 55\% of Blue states below the average are (.5)’s. *Note: This level of partisanship isn’t formally accounted for in my data analysis.

What’s the difference between red and blue states’ homeless populations?

With those caveats in mind, the difference between red and blue states is nonetheless clear. As a percentage of the overall population in the states, the drop-off in red states since 2012 is even more stark. Since 2007, blue states have seen essentially no change in their homeless populations.

Is the unsheltered population a blue-state problem?

Remove the shifts in the unsheltered population from the total and the changes in red and blue states largely disappear. Isolate that population, and the extent to which the unsheltered population is largely a blue-state problem becomes apparent.

Are blue or red states better off because of oil?

Blue states clearly do better than Red states on Economic Indicators, except for homelessness. And to bolster this point, it appears like there’s decent evidence that most Red outliers that are doing well, economically-speaking, are doing well because of oil.