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Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode

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The Red and Blue States of the United States

In 1996, the maps were physically central to election night newsrooms. By 2004, red states had become so closely associated with Republicans that a rising political star could refer to them in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states. We are one people, all of us defending the United States of America.

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