Dear TNCMAXQ,
Actually, Maryland sorta looks like the US as a whole.
There are 23 counties and the independent Baltimore City. Of these 24 jurisdictions, only three are reliably Democrat. They happen to be the three largest, Montgomery County, Prince Georges County, and Baltimore City.
But the rest of the state, with about half the population, votes Republican at the national level.
You still have a lot of old-time Democrats at the state and local level. We actually have a significant number of, get this, PRO-LIFE Democrats in the state legislature. In fact, the previous Speaker of the House, Cas Taylor, was a pro-life Democrat.
There are a lot of gun-rights, pro-life, pro-death penalty folks. Kind of the last vestige of Southern Democrats, I guess.
Over time, I suppose more and more of them will become Republicans, or will be replaced by Republicans. It'll take a while, Maryland is still pretty much a one-party machine state at the local/state level, but that masks a significant growing conservative minority that occasionally verges on the majority.
sitetest
"You still have a lot of old-time Democrats at the state and local level."
One must remember that the dead democrats still vote in most every state. ;)
You forgot Anne Anarunlde County.
You just described Kentucky about 6-10 years ago. Here is hoping Maryland succeeds the way Kentucky did.