Colorado seems like the type of state that can't really gain a "reputation," politically or otherwise, because it changes so much. Colorado 1990 is NOTHING like Colorado 2000, which is nothing like Colorado 2018. It's a constantly changing state, it seems.
That may be true, but the state is also
extremely varied. Whilst it is the big cities that give Colorado the Democratic vote, it also has a concentration of rural Democratic resort counties otherwise occurring only in the area comprising southern Vermont, western Massachusetts and Cheshire and Grafton Counties of New Hampshire.
Even the Republican-trending Hispanic counties of Southern Colorado are varied in themselves. Las Animas County showed a trend analogous to Appalachia or the Midwest, yet relatively nearby Alamosa County voted for a losing Democrat for the first time since it was created in 1916. In the case of Pueblo and Las Animas there may also be increasing influences from the arch-Republican High Plains upon the culture and politics.
