Any State Parties in Disagreement on Big Issues?

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The RI GOP state senators voted to support gay marriage unanimously.

And RI Democratic state lawmakers tend to be anti-union and pro-life. They also led the way on our state's Voter ID law.

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I think there's 6 elected Republicans in the General Assembly.

Also, when they just elected a new Speaker of the House, the Democrats made a big deal about getting the unanimous support of the few Republicans. Which even I found to be quite weird.


EDIT: There are 11 elected Republicans at the state level. 5 in the 38-member Senate (6 if you include the Independent), and 6 in the 75-member House. And like I said, the RI Republican Senators unanimously voted to support gay marriage.

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The areas with the most Republican support tend to be the very rural (by RI standards) towns of the RI/CT border. Whenever a town votes Republican in presidential elections it is always a town from this region. Almost all of the Republican representation in our legislature comes from this area as well.

This area is inhabited by "swamp yankees" which is a phrase used to describe WASPs along the RI/CT border. This area tends to have less Roman Catholics and "ethnic" whites which makes it different from the rest of RI which is inhabited by Roman Catholic Italians, Irish, Portuguese and French-Canadians.

Isn't East Greenwick very Republican too? 
They tend to be very upper-middle-class.
Same with the Portsmouth/Bristol/Barrington region.
Somewhat with Smithfield/Lincoln too, and Warwick.
Along with the western region, as you mentioned.
Not sure how that happened, though.

Yet like I said, the Republicans only have 6 seats in the 38-member Senate and 6 seats in the 75-member House.

So I really wouldn't say the Republicans in RI have a base region at all.

Here's a map to see: