The Pacific West and the north-east are all firmly Democratic already: the Great Plains firmly Republican.
Now 90, Mr Rogers came to California in 1940 from Oklahoma in the great migration from the Great Plains' dust bowl.
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Other, more affordable, less regulated and often more economically dynamic places like Texas and the Great Plains may realize even greater gains.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
I'm president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe from the state of South Dakota, and a member of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association.
Indeed, smaller, low-density Des Moines nearly broke into the top 10 (13th), reflective of the economic gains being made in the Great Plains.
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Monday's storm brought to mind the devastating twister outbreak that ripped through the Great Plains in May of 1999, killing at least 44 people.
Deborah and Frank Popper, two academics from the north-east, once proposed emptying much of the Great Plains and creating a national park for buffalo.
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Increasing feed costs, in combination with withering grasslands in the Great Plains and Corn Belt regions, are prompting ranchers to downsize beef and dairy herds.
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The question is, 'How do we stimulate that at a level that it happens in more than just those anecdotal places across the Great Plains?
In places like the Great Plains, people prefer old-fashioned shots of banking fundamentals to the exotic financial cocktails concocted by the "genius" financiers on the coast.
Many Corn Belt regions where distillers are sited, particularly in the Midwest and the Great Plains, have already begun to experience significant water supply problems.
It's been 140 years since the Homestead Act sent waves of settlers across the Great Plains, staking claim to parcels of land 160 acres in size.
The storms weren't restricted to the Great Plains and Midwest.
The National Weather Service said the work week could begin with storms bringing showers to the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and large hail and high winds to the Great Plains.
This would spur both industrial development in places like the Great Plains--rich in everything from fossil fuels to wind power--while keeping energy prices down for U.S. consumers and firms.
"When I look out over rural Nebraska and the Great Plains, I see it happen all the time, " says John Allen, a rural sociologist at the University of Nebraska.
The Great Plains in middle America were, millions of years ago, great inland seas where organic matter deposited eons ago has matured into valuable oil and gas pools today.
They fear a pipeline burst would allow oil to seep into the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive water table beneath the Great Plains and one of the largest in the world.
The snowstorm turned out to be a welcome one to many Kansans and many others throughout the Great Plains, who have been suffering a drought for a third straight year.
Black's vivid lyrics and intense delivery add an unsettling twist to the traditional format, and most songs feel like they blew in from a David Lynch movie rather than the Great Plains.
The great buffalo herds of the Americas once stretched across the Great Plains, but by the time the tragic buffalo slaughters of the West were over, there was only one herd left.
The fun has already started in parts of Kansas and Nebraska, with the snowstorm expected to roll over the Great Plains between interstate highways 70 and 80, according to CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis.
For one thing, there's a growing cadre of congressional Democrats from non-gentry constituencies--the Great Plains, various suburbs and exurbs--who may find the Obama approach both not sufficiently populist and too dismissive of their basic economic concerns.
Demand for corn is such that more land is also being ploughed up in drier regions of the Great Plains states to the west of the corn belt, where irrigation in required, increasing water demand further.
The tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma on Monday reminded many of a devastating twister outbreak that ripped through the Great Plains in May of 1999, flattening entire neighborhoods and killing at least 44 people, including three children.
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The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has shut its doors in response to a different sort of climate change--one producing a cold political Northern that blew into the Windy City from the Great Plains and beyond on Nov. 2.
Call in advance (Tel. 605-433-5552) to tour the command bunker, where crews of "missileers" spent the Cold War on high alert, ready to rain mayhem on Moscow by launching intercontinental nuclear missiles buried in silos all across the Great Plains.
For the time being, their rise will be most notable in "the zone of sanity, " the vast range of territory between south Texas to the Great Plains, which largely resisted the housing and stock asset bubbles of the past decade.
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