TERMINOLOGY:

Democrats Couldn't Defend Against Surge of Bush, GOP (Ronald Brownstein, November 11 2002, LA Times)

It's illuminating to look at Tuesday's results through the prism of the razor-thin 2000 presidential race between Bush and Al Gore. That election divided the country almost exactly in half, between culturally conservative "red" states (for Bush) and more cosmopolitan "blue" states (for Gore).

Is conservative really the opposite of cosmopolitan? Aren't the Blue states actually more "metropolitan"? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 17, 2002 10:34 PM