Ron Brownstein of National Journal has an article examining the political splits and factions in the state where I spent some college time. It’s not real scintillating: “demographics favor Democrats if they can mobilize Latinos; Republicans skew older and whiter.”

In other words, the same kind of thing we’ve been reading since Obama was first elected with a coalition of younger browner voters with black and liberal white voters in 2008. But he does offer a good historical explanation of what the state’s politics have been since 2008 when Janet Napolitano left the governorship to take the DHS job in Washington DC. For those of us former residents who’ve been looking at its legislators’ behavior from a distance since then and asking ourselves “What the hell is going on there?” it’s helpful.