The AMT tends to hit those in coast-hugging wealthy states (read: blue states) more heavily.
Residents in big urban blue states, such as California and New York, will be socked hardest.
Now when we look at this map, we think in terms of red and blue states.
With a few exceptions, blue states seem to be losing jobs and population to red states.
Republicans sometimes take solace in having turned once blue states red, like West Virginia.
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While the tax increases won passage in Minnesota, similar policies face further tests in other blue states.
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Home prices are highest in the coastal blue states and remain that way despite the recent losses.
Taxpayers in blue states claim roughly twice as much in itemized deductions as those in red states.
This continued erosion of jobs and the middle class from the blue states and cities is not inevitable.
Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.
Residents in blue states like California and New York will be socked hardest.
In the blue states, this may come from local authorities, but everywhere from the increasingly powerful federal bureaucratic class.
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The same trend is at play in other high-tax, high-cost blue states, such as Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
They both represent the bluest of blue states and therefore had every incentive to go along with their Democratic colleagues.
Meanwhile, United States is periodically being quartered by successive halves, as in Northern States, Southern States, Red States, Blue States etc.
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High tax and pro-regulation blue states seem to want even more government control over health care, including a single-payer health care system.
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Blue states, red states, purple states, more rural states, more urban states.
On one side are the blue states, who believe that higher taxes are not only just, but also the road to stronger economic growth.
It is the peculiar mechanics of that institution, designed for a different age, that leave us divided into red states, blue states and swing states.
Democrats from reliably blue states have less to worry about, since their governors and legislatures have embraced the law and are working to make it succeed.
In the ultimate irony, red states subsidize coastal living, but then the blue states frequently give that money back through federal monies redistributed to the states.
In the blue states the opposite is starting to be true: The richer and more educated one is, the likelier one is to vote Democratic or Independent.
Red states Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota (and a few blue states like Ohio and Pennsylvania) are getting rich from oil and gas drilling.
In recent years, the debate over immigration has been portrayed in large part as a battle between immigrant-tolerant blue states and regions and their less welcoming red counterparts.
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This is occurring in both red and blue states.
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Oregon, one of the bluest of the blue states, saw voters overwhelmingly pass an initiative that permits property owners to force government to compensate them for losses resulting from environmental or zoning rules.
If Christie held up under the pressure, he would appeal to working class Democrats (a group where Obama is already weak) and put into play Blue states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Let us broaden our coalition, building a confederation not of liberals or conservatives, not of red states or blue states, but of all Americans who are hurting today, and searching for a better tomorrow.
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