*sigh* My husband is from Colorado, and we've been planning to move to Colorado Springs since we got married. Every time I hear these stories, even if it *IS* from Boulder, I wonder if we should look elsewhere.
Is the rest of the state relatively sane?
Mostly, and the Springs is the epicenter of conservative Colorado.
I live in Weld County, which is north of Denver and includes the city of Greeley, the proud host of President Bush a couple weeks ago. I understand a democrat has never been elected to a county wide office in Weld County.
Colorado Springs is okay - believe me I live here - Fort Carson, Peterson AFB, NORAD and the Air Academy - pretty rock solid.
The big fuss in "The Federal Republic of Boulder" right now is one of their High Schools kicked a marine recruiter off campus the other day.
The story hit the radio stations and now the high school relented and is willing to "discuss arrangements" with the recruiter as a result of the publicity.
Under the "no child left behind" law, military recruiters must me allowed access the same as college recruiters.
That high school was violating the law and has since gotten smart real fast.
Colorado Springs is a beautiful place (I've lived there 4 months now) that is extremely conservative. Extremely, with a few opposing strongholds like most cities.
Boulder and Denver are great bastions of communism, the rest of the state is pretty good. Although Bush stickers were outnumbered by about 4 to 1 in Evergreen just as they were in Denver, Evergreen is still more conservative than liberal, most conservatives don't show it.