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Blue in a Red America

By Dan Kennedy

Boston Phoenix | November 5, 2004

For those who live in Blue America, Election Day's crimson tide was a terrible blow not just to their hopes for a Kerry victory, but to their very idea of what it means to be an American.

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Tags: GOP, gay, marriage, election, Bush, George, liberal, Abortion, Kerry, 2004, Christians, evangelical, John

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The Boston Phoenix was founded in 1966 as an arts and entertainment newspaper for the 18-40 year old market. Today, with editions in Rhode Island and Portland, Maine, the Phoenix has a distribution of 220,000 and more than 600,000 readers...

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