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The reddest and bluest legislatures
The reddest and bluest legislatures
Last week, Josh Goodman, one of the writers for Governing Magazine, objected to a piece by NPR where host Scott Simon called Oklahoma "the most Republican state in the Union."
His point was that too often pundits only look at presidential performance when they talk about the nation's political divide.
Backing him up, the good folks at NCSL recently crunched the numbers to determine which legislatures have the most seats dominated by a single party.
There are three states in which Republicans hold more than two-thirds of the total seats: Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.
Happily for us, there are seven states where Democrats control more than two-thirds of the legislative seats: Rhode Island, Hawaii, Connecticut, West Virginia, Maryland, and Arkansas.
For more triva, check out the whole post.
....Massachusetts??
House: 16R/144D (90% D)
Senate: 5R/35D (87.5% D)
The Massachusetts State House is composed of 90% Democrats, while the Massachusetts State Senate is 87.5% Democrat







