Conservatives Strike Up the Band

Connecticut is a curiosity—a political patchwork. Sophisticated commuters to New York heatedly discuss national and international politics in blissful ignorance of their own state candidates for Congress, even as they ride the bankrupt New Haven Railroad. In tiny towns like Union (pop. 430), a man is presumed Republican until proven otherwise, while the Democrats’ city dominance hobbles the GOP in every state election.

Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, founders and still members of the ADA, are registered Republicans in the town of Avon; this places Connecticut’s Republican Party in the proper political spectrum. In addition to the brothers Alsop, the Constitution State has contributed Chester Bowles and Abraham Ribicoff to the decline of the Republic.

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Connecticut is a curiosity—a political patchwork. Sophisticated commuters to New York heatedly discuss national and international politics in blissful ignorance of their own state candidates for Congress, even as they ride the bankrupt New Haven Railroad. In tiny towns like Union (pop. 430), a man is presumed Republican until proven otherwise, while the Democrats’ city dominance hobbles the GOP in every state election.

Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, founders and still members of the ADA, are registered Republicans in the town of Avon; this places Connecticut’s Republican Party in the proper political spectrum. In addition to the brothers Alsop, the Constitution State has contributed Chester Bowles and Abraham Ribicoff to the decline of the Republic.