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Its $1.2 billion award also matched that of Texas, a red state hub that was safe from the cuts.

Red state governors and legislators in places such as Wisconsin, Florida and Texas have been openly pursuing this project for years by leaning on their state universities to withdraw tenure protections from faculty members and restrict what they can talk about in class.

The festival veteran originally from Texas City, Texas, is currently completing a Red State comedy tour with Mary Lynn Rajskub.

Many of the majority white “red state” and “downscale” “working class” communities that have flocked to Trumpism are not that dissimilar in terms of poverty, lack of upward mobility, limited opportunities, being hurt by globalization/neoliberalism/casino capitalism and other forces as compared to majority Black and brown communities.

“Now it has started to become much more of this kind of red state, blue state thing,” said Richard Carpiano, a public policy professor at the UC Riverside who has studied vaccine hesitancy.