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.

WSJ: It's Time to Junk the Electoral College

Now when we look at this map, we think in terms of red and blue states.

NPR: States' Party Allegiances Shifty

This is occurring in both red and blue states.

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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.

WSJ: Laffer and Moore: The Red-State Path to Prosperity

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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With a few exceptions, blue states seem to be losing jobs and population to red states.

CNN: Commentary: GOP wants a census we can count on

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.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Dr. King's Legacy

States separated by 10 or more percentage points appear in red (Republican) and blue (Democrat).

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Yet increasingly, it appears that red states in the interior and the south may actually have more to gain from liberalized immigration than many blue state bastions.

FORBES: Why The Red States Will Profit Most From More U.S. Immigration

School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.

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