John Hinderaker of Power Line blog takes note of the National Journal map of red and blue House districts we wrote about yesterday. He wonders what is wrong with his home state of Minnesota.
MN has some of the few rural areas represented by Democrats. To his credit he mentions Scandinavian political traditions which lean left.
The other large non-urban area represented on the map is the northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico plus southern AZ. For those who don't know, much of this is part of the enormous Navaho, White Mountain, Papago and Moqui reservations which blanket large stretches the northeastern, eastern and southern reaches of AZ and the northwestern reaches of NM.
Fun factoid: The Navaho Nation is so out of step with the rest of the state that it observes daylight savings time while the rest of AZ does not, stubbornly sticking to Mountain Standard Time year round.
