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Welcome to the Dennis Prager show. I'm John Hinderocker from Powerline, filling in for Dennis today.

And some of you might not be aware of it, but in addition to writing for Powerline,

I am the president of Center of the American Experiment, which is the conservative policy

organization, or the only policy organization based in Minnesota. An American experiment

is having its annual dinner tonight. This is our big annual fundraiser. It's the biggest

conservative event every year in the state of Minnesota. And Dennis Prager is going to be our

keynote speaker in our annual dinner tonight. So while Dennis is jetting across America to get

to Minnesota for our event, I am sitting in for him on the radio, and I'll be with Dennis

later on this evening. So I'm delighted to be with you today on the Dennis Prager show.

I want to start the show today talking about one of the phenomena that we're all aware of.

And that's one of the really important things going on today in the United States,

not just in our political life, but really in every aspect of America's life. And that is the

ongoing sorting of states into red states and blue states. It seems as if the red states are

getting redder. The blue states are getting bluer, and there are fewer purple states all the time.

There used to be a number of states where legislatures would be split. The House might be

Republican, the Senate, Democrat, or whatever, or you'd have a legislature of one party in the

governor of a different party. That's becoming less common all the time. And in fact, my home state

of Minnesota was the last state that had a split legislature. We had a Democratic House and a

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