The Vital Center

A cartoon for Sept. 14, 2025

Crooks and Liars

‘“Young people are moving into the urban core, and that’s turning the outskirts more red.”

‘If that urban core is in state, statewide results won’t change. If it is elsewhere, they will.’

Painful to witness beloved states like Iowa and Montana fall into the national polarization and wind up conservative…. #redstates #purplestates #iowa #voteblue

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/politics/iowa-republicans-red.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue

Over the past 15 years, the Upper Midwest has seen a remarkable state-by-state sorting of voters along partisan lines.

The New York Times