Great post!
Seems high cost low reward for the national party to invest in a state like Alaska, but it's obvious that it's shifting on its own somewhat as it grows more cosmopolitan and the Natives start voting.
Hardly a sign of growing Democratic percentage ... especially considering the cosmopolitan areas in Alaska are more Republican than the rural areas.
Not everywhere is Virginia or North Carolina, though we only seem to focus on those places because their "switching" has a lot more electoral significance. I was reading a great article the other day about how Arkansas' growth has directly resulted in increased Republican strength, and the fastest growing areas are heavily Republican metropolitan areas that (even by the mid-2000s) were starting to exert their power over the more traditionally Democratic countryside.
It also helps that all the white Arkansas Democrats literally died.
