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The Mountain West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah--has become the new swing region in American politics. All signs point to these states, especially Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, being crucial in the 2012 election. Unfortunately, the rise of this region has been underreported in the media, and many political observers have only the most superficial understanding of the profound economic, political, and social changes that continue to reshape the Mountain West. America's New Swing Region is the remedy.Led by bestselling author and political analyst Ruy Teixeira, a talented group of scholars assembled by the Brookings Mountain West program (housed at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas) presents the facts and the narrative necessary for understanding what is happening in this region and why it is so important. Contents 1. Introduction and Overview2. America's New Swing Region: The Political Demography and Geography of the Mountain West3. Metropolitan Voting Patterns in the Mountain West: The New and Old Political Heartlands4. Hispanics, Race, and the Changing Political Landscape of the United States Mountain West5. The Political Attitudes of the Millennial Generation in the Mountain West6. The Mountain West Today: A Regional Survey7. Reapportionment and Redistricting in the Mountain WestContributors include Karlyn Bowman (American Enterprise Institute), David Damore(University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), William Frey (Brookings Institution), Scott Keeter (Pew Research Center), Robert E. Lang (Brookings, UNLV, and the Lincy Institute), Tom Sanchez (Virginia Tech University), and Ruy Teixeira (Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress).

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• Studies of Government Finance: Second Series(p. ii)
• Foreword(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Chapter One Development of the Federal System(p. 10)
• Chapter Two Fiscal Performance and Capacity(p. 31)
• Conclusion(p. 46)
• Chapter Three Federal Intergovernmental Transfers(p. 48)
• Chapter Four State Intergovernmental Transfers(p. 75)
• Conclusion(p. 85)
• Chapter Five State Taxes on Individual Income and Sales(p. 86)
• Chapter Six Other State Taxes(p. 103)
• Chapter Seven the Property Tax(p. 120)
• Conclusion(p. 141)
• Chapter Eight Nonproperty Taxes and Nontax Revenue(p. 142)
• Conclusion(p. 159)
• Chapter Nine State and Local Debt(p. 160)
• Chapter Ten Earmarked Revenues, Retirement Systems, and Capital Budgets(p. 183)
• Chapter Eleven Education Finance(p. 208)
• Chapter Twelve Whither State and Local Finance?(p. 222)
• Conclusion(p. 232)
• Appendix Statistical Tables(p. 235)
• Bibliography(p. 255)
• Index(p. 259)

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Ruy Teixeira is a joint fellow at the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress, and he was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution 2007-11. His previous books include America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters , written with Joel Rogers, and The Emerging Democratic Majority , with John Judis.