Pajamas Media » How Obama Turned Indiana Blue
Celebratory gunfire rang through neighborhoods in Indianapolis Tuesday night, as supporters of President-elect Barack Obama were elated over the election of their candidate to our nation’s highest office. Hours later, deep into the morning, while wild parties continued throughout America, the Hoosier State of Indiana was colored blue for the first time since the onset of the Vietnam War.
“Celebratory gunfire,” um?
My home county went for Obama, 28k-21k, approximately. Actually, that’s not a huge surprise. Muncie, in the lost days of my childhood, was a hard-core lunch-bucket town, home to Ball Brothers fruit jar company, Borg-Warner (the famed GM “Muncie four speed”), Delco-Remy batteries and Delco Guide lamps, and a host of other industrial concerns.
Now the biggest employer is Ball State University. Muncie has become, in many respects, a university town, a liberal-left bastion.
Time flies.
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