{"id":376,"date":"2004-04-30T23:49:52","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=376"},"modified":"2008-03-31T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T07:26:22","slug":"purple-is-the-new-red-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/purple-is-the-new-red-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple is the new red, blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post opines that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A39044-2004Apr24.html\" target=\"_blank\">red                   and blue states are rapidly becoming purple states<\/a> &#8212; in                   effect,<em> <\/em><strong>&#8220;The once-hardy species of conservative Democrats                   &#8212; so numerous in the 1980s they had a name, &#8216;Reagan Democrats&#8217;                   &#8212; is now on the endangered list, along with the liberal &#8216;Rockefeller                   Republicans.'&#8221;<\/strong> Ideological divisions are now in line               with party divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/purple-is-the-new-red-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post opines that the red and blue states are rapidly becoming purple states &#8212; in effect, &#8220;The once-hardy species of conservative Democrats &#8212; so numerous in the 1980s they had a name, &#8216;Reagan Democrats&#8217; &#8212; is now on the endangered list, along with the liberal &#8216;Rockefeller Republicans.&#8217;&#8221; Ideological divisions are now in line &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/purple-is-the-new-red-blue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple is the new red, blue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/purple-is-the-new-red-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}