> There's more to Colorado than "cities are liberal". The CO general assembly has big Dem majorities in the house and senate, along with a Dem Governor. Sure,

> There's more to Colorado than "cities are liberal". The CO general assembly has big Dem majorities in the house and senate, along with a Dem Governor. Sure, but the Dem majorities are exactly because the cities are liberal. https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/map-of-colorado-state-senate-districts https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/m... https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/map-of-colorado-state-house-of-representative-districts https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/m... Outside of the cities, the state is almost as red as Wyoming. Pennsylvania looks very similar to Colorado actually: https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/map-of-pennsylvania-state-house-of-representative-districts https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/m... You raise an interesting point though. My guess for PA is that their population is spread out enough that you can create more credible districts in the rural areas because almost all the land is livable whereas Colorado sort of self-gerrymanders because despite its size there are decent chunks of the state that are unlivable (plus all the national parks, etc). It's like that old xkcd comic about heat maps - a map of democratic voters is basically just population density heat map. The interesting question isn't "why is Colorado blue?" - we know the answer, it's because of the cities. The real interesting question is "why did Colorado develop so many cities when no one else in the intermountain west did?"