Strange as it sounds, the red—state phenomenon in elections is starting to spread beyond U.S. borders. In Mexico, there are (figuratively speaking) red states too. Their support explains why a free—market candidate, Felipe Calderon, won Mexico's election on July 2 against a rather dangerous leftist demogogue, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who sought to redistribute income, probably by "harvesting" it from the red states. By a curious coincidence, these Calderon—voting Mexican red states just happen to border the U.S.' red states, right along the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California borders. These states have long been disdained by the rarified dainties and self—important intellectuals over in Mexico City, who have long looked down on them as "carne asada" barbarians and cowboys. But the Mexican red states have learned to ignore that and instead have become highly integrated, economically, with their U.S. red—state neighbors over on the northern...(Read Full Post)