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Originally Posted by tmsterp
Exactly my point - these things change. Those two counties have changed dramatically in less than a generation. I certainly don't think Maryland will go red in the few election cycles, which is why I said in the distant future
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The GOP is going to have to change DRAMATICALLY before we can even sniff at this even talking about the distant future.
What has happened over the years in Montgomery and Howard is what the GOP is going through now in Virginia and we have seen happen in many suburban areas across the country (portions of the south with the larger religious influence tend to be an exception).
Well educated middle to upper middle-class suburbanites use to be the very core of the GOP base. Its gone, kaput. In order to get many of these areas back, the GOP is going to have to make major ideological shifts, and the current shifts seem to be pushing everything further and further the other direction, pushing what was once a core part of their base further and further out of reach.
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