Mark Barabak: “Over the last several months, I’ve traveled through a half-dozen states — along the Pacific Coast, across the Southwest, into the Rockies — to explore the reasons for the change, which has drastically refashioned the national race for the White House.”
“There are commonalities throughout the region.
Among them the defection of Republicans … who consider the GOP too extreme, and the relocation of Democrats who imported their political affinities from places like California.”