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The intense political polarization of the United States is most clearly reflected by the dysfunctional nature of the federal government. At a more local scale, it is seen as well in the growing movement to create new states by splitting existing ones. Most of these cases involve the desire of people in rural, conservative counties to secede from the more liberal states in which they are currently located. A front-page story in the October 7 edition of the New York Times, for example, highlights a drive to devise a new state of “Northern Colorado.” Eleven Colorado counties will vote on...

It looks like the GOP is finally going to succeed in Texas. Hopefully, Martin Frost is tossed out on his butt, and the GOP can make some gains. I won't celebrate until it's pushed through, but I like what I see so far. But the dems have threatened payback(New Mexico is rumored), and we all know they are going to try and get even. Thanks to redistricting, Dave Bonior and other dem stars are now toast. So what can we do? In most states, the state legislature and the governor handle redistricting. These races don't get a lot of hype...