Typical ski resort. Most ski resorts tend to be quite liberal compared to surrounding areas. Places like Blaine County in Idaho and Teton County in Wyoming have swung quite heavily towards the Democrats. Likewise Pitkin county in Colorado went over 2/3 for Obama and it is a fairly white county. Summit county in Utah, which has a lot of ski resorts but has a high Mormon population by contrast didn't totally follow this as swung massively towards Obama in 2008, but then in 2012 swung right back, although it would be interesting to see a precinct breakdown and see how much of that came from towns not connected to ski resorts.
But why are the ski resorts so liberal? Latino room-maids and kitchen-aids? Lots of aged hippies that have moved in to sell self-photographed postcards? Or locals getting concerned about climate change possibly eroding their income base (and increasing the risk of landslides sweeping away their homes)?
Think of the Green voters in big European cities. (Brighton, Berlin, Paris...)
