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Chaffee County Commissioner Keith Baker pointing out different areas of interest in an Action 22 proposed map.
With Colorado s impending redistricting process about to redraw political lines around the state, leaders in lots of places are thinking about how they want to be represented in Congress.
For the rural mountain counties which, along with urban El Paso County, make up the current 5th Congressional District, it could mean big changes.
After a decade of population growth in Colorado Springs, the state’s second largest city, El Paso County might now have enough residents to be its own district. And that suits Chaffee County Commissioner Keith Baker just fine.
But not all gay people live in cities. Demographers estimate that 15% to 20% of the United States’ total LGBTQ population – between 2.9 million and 3.8 million people – live in rural areas.
These millions of understudied LGBTQ residents of rural America are the subject of my latest academic research project. Since 2015 I have conducted interviews with 40 rural LGBTQ people and analyzed various survey data sets to understand the rural gay experience.
My study results, now under peer review for publication in an academic journal, found that many LGBTQ people in rural areas view their sexual identity substantially differently from their urban counterparts – and question the merits of urban gay life.
The Blue Beltway
Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at The Atlantic, coins a new political-geographic term in the wake of the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections to describe a shift in the political alignment of nearly all large metropolitan areas in the nation. January 8, 2021, 7am PST | Irvin Dawid Share In a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 2000, Democrats now appear to have elected two on a single day by dominating the largest population centers, particularly the Atlanta metropolitan area, with the help of powerful turnout among Black voters, writes Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at
The Atlantic, on Jan. 6.