Balkanization civil war. Colorado is blue but there are strong differences in counties (rectangles with little common interest within the borders) even aurora where I live is divided from my neighborhood (working class/mex) to daughter's (college elites)
Your point?
Well I'm not very good at explaining but. The big western states are rectangles with no geographic or economic ties, our counties are the same; Denver Boulder run the state for their ends, my county's urban population overrides the rural portion. Eastern Colorado belongs in Kansas, western Utah, weld county Wyoming the I25 corridor rules them all.
