President Donald Trump’s drive to rescind the federal efforts to combat global climate change is highlighting another chasm between Republican- and Democratic-leaning states. …
In the presidential Electoral College and the Senate, Republicans rely overwhelmingly on the states most tightly bound to the fossil fuel economy — as producers, consumers or both. Democrats rely mostly on the states that have transitioned most rapidly into a lower-carbon economy.
This pattern means the states that emit the most carbon provide an imposing phalanx of support for Republican elected officials almost uniformly hostile to action on climate. To the frustration of blue states — and indeed most nations around the world — red America has become a brown barricade against confronting the escalating challenge of climate change. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN