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	Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blue is used also as a word to denote a sad or melancholy state, as in depression (however, the phrase "blue skies," referring to sunny weather, implies cheerfulness).
		Blue is associated with many air forces and navies because of the color of their dress uniforms, while green is associated with armies.
		In the United States, since the 2000 presidential election, blue represents the leftist Democratic Party, and "blue states" are states that tend to favor the Democrats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue (2142 words)

	election 2000 maps
		states) are unequal in area, thus might give the reader a false impression of the mapped data distribution.
		The size of each state is transformed based on the magnitude of electoral votes, emphasizing the variable that carries the crucial election information.
		The states are scaled according to population density (1997 data).
	www.geog.ucsb.edu /~sara/html/mapping/election/map.html (567 words)

	ESL MUSIC
		Blue States quickly became a live prospect, debuting with the prime Saturday night slot on the main stage at The Big Chill festival in the UK.
		Blue States have ventured to the US three times, including a six week headlining tour that saw them perform at the SxSW music conference in March of 2002, where they surpassed expectations and captivated the crowd with a breathtaking set.
		Not forgetting the outstanding instrumentals, that are the continuing mainstay of Blue States, from the deep lupine lope of first single Metro Sound, the psychedelic swirl of Colouration, where joy and tragedy intermingle in brilliant technicolor.
	www.eslmusic.com /artists/bluestates.html (547 words)

	AllRefer.com - Blue Ridge, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Blue Ridge, eastern range of the Appalachian Mts., extending south from S Pa. to N Ga.; highest mountains in the E United States.
		The Blue Ridge was a barrier to the pioneers' westward movement.
		The Blue Ridge is a major East Coast recreation area noted for its resorts and scenery.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BlueRidg.html (319 words)

	election 2004 maps
		The 'BLUES' have settled in the highly urbanized, populous states, at the 'edges' of Red/Blue America.
		States that resemble each other socio-demographically are placed closer to one another in the SOM than less similar states.
		States at the edges of the map are socio-demographically more different to other states than states towards the center of the map.
	www.geog.ucsb.edu /~sara/html/mapping/election/election04/election.html (1216 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Death from the blue states
		I indexed the philosophy of a state by the party of the candidate for whom it voted in the presidential elections of 1992, 1996 and 2000.
		The growth states are mainly Republican (the blue states) and the dying states are mainly Democrat (the red states).
		The rapidly dying states averaged 0.7 (that is, only 0.7 away from a perfect Democrat 0), the dying states averaged 0.95, the growing averaged 1.75, and the rapidly growing states averaged 2.3 (0.7 away from a perfect Republican 3).
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39720 (685 words)

	Red states, blue states: It's about religion \| The-Tidings.com
		By now we are all familiar with the distinction between red states (where a majority of voters choose the Republican presidential candidate) and blue states (which go for the Democrat).
		Of the 28 states that are 40-59 percent Protestant or Mormon, 16 (57 percent) were red, and 12 (43 percent) were blue.
		States with greater mixtures of religious groups went red when Protestants and Mormons got significant help from others, especially Catholics in states such as Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/1112/signs.htm (785 words)

	Blue States: The Soundings - PopMatters Music Review
		Blue States first two records barely made a splash when they first appeared stateside, and this is something of a shame.
		Blue States is the brainchild of multi-instrumental songwriter Andy Dragazis, Blue States rose to prominence in Britain as the first band signed to the fledgling Memphis Industries label.
		Based on these foundations, I felt that Blue States had it in them to surpass their early work and produce a blissed-out, retro-electronic pop masterpiece in the vein of Death in Vegas' The Contino Sessions or Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/bluestates-soundings.shtml (864 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Bush red states more generous
		While activists in Kerry blue states who are talking about seceding from the U.S. slam Bush red states for not giving as much in taxes as do their blue opponents, new research indicates most red states are considerably more generous in giving to charity than blue states.
		This year's findings reveal that 80 percent of the red states rank higher in generosity than any of the blue states and that all the blue states are in the lower half of the list.
		One of the complaints was that the 19 blue states won by Kerry are "donor states" to the red states, meaning they give more in taxes to the federal government than is returned in the form of grants and services.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41409 (422 words)

	The Washington Monthly
		We have this huge swath of contiguous red states, an unshakeable monolith which seem to dominate the map and which are virtually unchanged from the previous election.
		Blue is the color of the ocean -- those coastal states are closer to the ocean than the inland states, which assume the color of the earth -- red.
		For purposes of categorization, Ohio is a Purple State.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_11/005157.php (2626 words)

	Election result maps
		The (contiguous 48) states of the country are colored red or blue to indicate whether a majority of their voters voted for the Republican candidate (George W. Bush) or the Democratic candidate (John F. Kerry) respectively.
		That is, states are drawn with a size proportional not to their sheer topographic acreage -- which has little to do with politics -- but to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground.
		The electoral votes are apportioned roughly according to states' populations, as measured by the census, but with a small but deliberate bias in favor of smaller states.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~mejn/election (1192 words)

	RED STATES, WHIE SOCKS, AND BLUE RIBBON BEER : CafePress.com
		Many states are divided, such as Florida, which is quite liberal in the cities, but rather conservative in rural areas such as the Panhandle.
		The most typical is that the majority of blue states tend to be more urban, have higher per capita government expenditures, and are more multicultural.
		Many states are divided, such as Pennsylvania, which is quite conservative in the interior, but liberal around the urban centers of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
	www.cafepress.com /white_socks (2483 words)

	Blue states buzz over secession - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 09, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One popular map circulating on the Internet shows the 19 blue states won by Sen. John Kerry — Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and the Northeastern states — conjoined with Canada to form the "United States of Canada." The 31 red states carried by Mr.
		New York and California, Connecticut — the states that are blue are all the states that are paying for the bulk of everything this government does, from...
		While secession is often thought to be a Southern phenomenon, Northern leaders repeatedly threatened secession in the 19th century, in protest of such provocations as the War of 1812, as well as the admission of Louisiana and Texas to the Union.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20041109-122753-5113r.htm (778 words)

	essays & effluvia: Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed
		As the red state/blue state chasm widens, representatives of both sides have been busy pointing fingers across the divide, anxious to show which set of states is: friendlier, more moral; stocking or feeding from the government trough' more charitable,...
		But even if one were to stipulate to the untrue fact that everything "blue" states eat is produced by "red" states, and that red states never import anything of any kind from blue states, that would remain a non sequitur with respect to my wealth-redistribution comments.
		During the heyday of the welfare state during the 50's and 60's, poverty was halved stably to about 11 percent, where it stayed until the 80's, when it rose thanks to cutbacks.
	bigpicture.typepad.com /writing/2004/11/red_states_feed.html (12477 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In other words, the Blue States are shelling out the dough and the Red States are spending it.
		States with a large number of residents receiving Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements also receive high rankings, according to J. Scott Moody, a senior economist for the Tax Foundation.
		States like Virginia and Maryland, near the center of government, also pull in more than their share because of the large number of governmental employees.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=STATES-11-24-04&cat=AN (773 words)

	Feelin' the Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Purple States: How the seeming sea of red on the electoral map is a scam to panic the 49% who voted blue.
		Here are the states that are within 3%, as well as a chart of states by county, not just red or blue but the "in-between", followed by a chart from Robert J. Vanderbei at Princeton University.
		All the Reds talk about is how annoyed they are that the blue states believe the government is the solution to everything, and annoyed that they believe that government money is their only solution to a problem.
	www.topalli.com /blue/intro.html (1784 words)

	Blue States, Lacking Martial Spirit & Guns, Cancel Plans To Secede From U.S.
		The "Blue States" — the U.S. coastal areas and a few states in the Upper Midwest that traditionally vote Democratic — are feeling increasingly isolated and some Blue State People openly called to secede from the rest of the "God-fearin', sister-marryin', (and here's the key) gun-totin' Red States.
		According to a recent study, the only Blue State people with "decent amounts" of guns are "a couple thousand deer hunters" spread throughout rural Pennsylvania and "several hundred gang-bangers" in large California cities.
		Military analysts said the only serious attack that could be mounted by the Blue States (besides the hunters and hoodlums) was an advance on Virginia by the 5th Connecticut Watergun Regiment.
	www.brokennewz.com /displaystory.asp_Q_storyid_E_1160bluestates (399 words)

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		In the “red states,” or states won by George W. Bush in 2000, however, Bush wins handily by a 51% to 39% margin.
		Forty-seven percent of blue state voters rated Bush’s job performance as good or excellent while 51% said the president’s job performance was only fair or poor.
		Fifty-three percent of Blue State and 59% of Red State voters felt the Democratic filibuster of judicial nominees was wrong while 35% of Blue State and 32% of Red State voters feel a minority of Senators are right to use whatever means to necessary to block the nominees.
	www.zogby.com /news/021804.html (1338 words)

	The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page
		Children in red states are more likely to be born to teenagers or unmarried mothers — in 1999, 33.7 percent of babies in red states were born out of wedlock, versus 32.5 percent in blue states.
		And the red states have special trouble with the Sixth Commandment: the murder rate was 7.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in the red states, compared with 6.1 in the blue states, and 4.1 in New Jersey.
		As a group, red states pay considerably less in taxes than the federal government spends within their borders; blue states pay considerably more.
	www.pkarchive.org /column/050702.html (733 words)

	United States Navy: The Blue Angels History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the end of the 1940s, the Blue Angels were flying their first jet aircraft, the Grumman F9F-2 Panther.
		The Blue Angels remained in Corpus Christi until the winter of 1954 when they relocated to their present home at NAS Pensacola, Florida.
		On November 8, 1986, the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the sleek McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, the first dual-role fighter/attack aircraft now serving on the nation's front lines of defense.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/aircraft/b-angels/blues.html (355 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dorf: Does the Constitution Permit the Blue States to Secede?
		By joining with culturally sympathetic Canada, the blue states of the East Coast, the West Coast and the upper Midwest could create a contiguous land mass, with only the islands of the blue state of Hawaii left at a distance.
		Nationalists frequently claim that the states were never sovereign: As colonies, they were under British dominion, and they declared and won their independence as the United States.
		That should serve as a useful reminder that, whatever the real differences between Americans in blue states and red states are today, they are nothing like the differences that just a few generations ago divided citizens of the blue states and the gray states.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dorf/20041124.html (2890 words)

	Mackubin T. Owens on National Review Online
		Blue states have come to believe that they are too good to associate with the peckerwoods who reelected George Bush.
		The blue states have made it next to impossible for their citizens to own firearms, so they can't count on "a people, numerous and armed" to vindicate their secession.
		I say skip the "with malice toward none and with charity for all" stuff and go right to "radical Reconstruction." Treat the rebellious blue states as conquered provinces, disorganized communities without legitimate civil governments that cannot regain statehood until the federal government is ready to give it to them.
	www.nationalreview.com /owens/owens200411160824.asp (1031 words)

	P-I Focus: Red and blue and the color of money
		And there's a corollary perception that, in contrast to these welfare-queen states, the inland and Southern states are a heartland of self-reliance and private initiative, less dependent on federal spending.
		But according to the Tax Foundation, the main reason so many blue states pay so much more than they get back is that their residents tend to earn more money and pay more income tax.
		Still, if the blue states could cut loose from the reds (granting the South the divorce it sought 144 years ago), they'd start out $136 billion to the good.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/211080_sciglianomoney.html (1459 words)

	Could the Blue States Secede? - Is there a legal way to opt out of the Union? By Sam Schechner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Conceivably, the United States could amend its Constitution to include a similar process, but constitutional experts have not seriously examined whether it would be legally possible.
		Alternatively, international law would permit the United States to cede some states to another sovereign nation—say, Canada—through a treaty, but it is unclear if simple ratification by the Senate would pass constitutional muster.
		Despite these formidable obstacles, there are nevertheless secessionist movements of various levels of seriousness in the United States: Residents in Alaska, Hawaii, and Texas have tried with some fanfare but little success to make their cases in recent years.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109317 (521 words)

	Amazon.com: Nothing Changes Under The Sun: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		More so than the instrumentation, Blue States takes his melancholy very seriously, standing out from the wave of current chill-kitsch peddlers (Bent, Lemon Jelly, etc) by leaving the cheeky samples on the dilapidated vinyl they came from, instead evoking the memories of cloudy coastal drives.
		Blues State's Nothing Changes Under the Sun is perhaps one of the best CDs to be released on the ESL label.
		Blue State's music is beautiful and organic and could easily be the soundtrack for some Western or Oliver Stone flick.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056VAK?v=glance (1292 words)

	MyDD :: At What Point Do Blue States Bail on Federal Programs
		Now, though, most "blue" states are paying more in Federal taxes than they get back in Federal spending and with most "red" states paying less in Federal taxes than they get back.
		Most blue states are fairly wealthy and already tax their citizens to pay for social services.
		There is a core group of blue state representatives and senators who will pass programs that they can share in, but they also get to support presidents like Bush.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/5/17/21584/5671 (378 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fear not, Think Blue is still here, we've just moved to a new website which is launching tomorrow (Monday).
		First, we've retooled the popular Think Blue band a bit at the suggestion of our supporters, so that it has the date of the 2006 midterm election AND the 2008 Presidential election.
		Third, and also at the suggestion of our supporters, we finally have a number of new and fun Think Blue items (including, most importantly, YOUTH bands - sorry for the wait!).
	thinkblue2008.com (193 words)

	AlterNet: Blue States, Latino Voters
		And Latino voters in these four states could be united and inspired by an economic agenda that includes decent wages, retirement security, reining in corporate corruption, rebuilding public schools, labor rights and healthcare.
		Colorado is a state that Bill Clinton carried in 1992 and lost by only 20,000 votes in 1996.
		Although Bush won the state by 9 percentage points in 2000, his winning percentage was only 51 percent, and his environmental sins combined with a growing Latino vote could make this state much closer next time.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17553 (1121 words)

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