I live in very deep red Utah, where the Republicans control all House and Senate seats in the national congress and have a huge majority in the state's legislature.

Fortunately I live in one of the areas that is about 50/50 left/right, but I have previously lived in areas in the state that were 80 to 90 percent Republican. Not bad places to live if you don't mind not having much of a social life and if you avoid talking politics and religion.

But one party rule is not healthy and Utah has some ****** up politics. It didn't used to be this way. When I moved here in the 70s there were some Democratic congressmen and a Dem governor. It was a much more moderate political environment then. The last couple of decades has taken the Republican Party ever farther to the right.