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Political parties are a staple in most democracies. The first political party in the United States
was the Federalists, a group of people who believed the federal government should have more power.
A few years later, an opposition group rose, calling themselves Democratic-Republicans. There were
many major ones in the first century of the United States, with another party called the Whigs growing
after. Eventually, these parties evolved into the modern-day Democrats and Republicans. Political
parties are groups of people trying to pass policies that favor the ideas of the people in those groups.
In other words, they try to help people who belong to their specific party. People in these groups vary,
but very often different regions of the country all tend to sway further to the left or right as a whole. This is apparent in the recent midterm elections. In the following picture, you can see that in the west,
the north, and the northeast tend to lean more blue, or democratic, and the Midwest and south tend to lean redder, or Republican.

Now for further evidence, the same trend is apparent in the recent governor races as well.

As you can see, the trend is very similar. This is why Democrats generally did better in the North,
Northeast, and West, and Republicans did better in the South and Midwest.  But a shocking victory
for the Democrats was in Kansas, in the heart of the country. That is a very great win for the Democrats
and is honestly a little surprising.

Just because a state is blue, doesn't make all of the people democratic. Cities tend to be further to the
left,  and rural areas further on the right. This means that land wise, the United States is redder.
This makes it so that the Democrats have a proportional amount of votes because the majority
of citizens live in cities. Below is a map of the House of Representative's midterms, which the Democrats won more seats, but on the map, it is primarily red.

Some may argue since the majority of the country is red, most Americans are republican. But this is a map of the house, which is based on population. Montana looks all red, but only has one representative in the house because the population is so low. But in California, which looks 50/50, has 53 delegates. But only 7 are Republican, as that half of the country is sparsely populated. Finally, it seems as though Nevada is even with land mass, but with only 4 delegates, the two districts with Reno and Las Vegas voted Democratic, while the rural areas voted Republican, which clearly shows the divide between rural and city. Lastly, a slogan for the Republican candidate this year in Washington was, "Don't let Seattle control the vote." Washington is half and half but always votes blue as Seattle and Tacoma have the majority of the population in the state, who mostly vote democratic.