But Mr. Rove said Mr. Bush could also compete in an even broader band of states.
If the talk means anything, keep an eye on an irregular band of states, heavily industrialized, that stretches west from New Jersey and Delaware into Pennsylvania and then on to Ohio, Michigan and Missouri.
TAMPA, Fla .— For more than 50 years, the Sun Belt — the band of states that extends from Florida to California — has been the philosophical heart and electoral engine of the Republican Party.
A band of states across the middle of the country, from Espírito Santo on the coast through to Goiás (home to some rich farm land) and on to Rondônia and Acre (both Amazon states) swung away from the Workers Partyy to the Party of Brazilian Social Democrats.
Hillary Clinton's overwhelming victory in South Carolina on Saturday did many things for her campaign: It gave the candidate more confidence and voice, extended her momentum as she moves into a big band of states voting Tuesday and made good on her campaign's long-uttered assurance that her troubles would ease as the race moved out of the largely white early states.
24 Geospatial mapping of self-reported questionnaire data has shown the USA to have a 'diabetes belt' (ie, a band of states with high prevalence of this condition) in the south-east of the country linked to distribution of the known risk factors of obesity, inactivity, low socioeconomic status and African American ethnicity.
The evidence of polaron formation is that the reaction in the band-to-band transition is due to the shifting of the band density of state toward the energy gap.
Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner, the husband-and-wife duo behind the indie band Mates of State, moved here last year — and they are still adapting.
The band Mates of State, consisting of the husband-and-wife duo Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, played a dreamy cover of Gnarls Barkley's hip-hop confession "Crazy" — a precursor for the karaoke that soon transpired.
Clifton has served as the quiet home for a small, growing band of the state's most respected Western artists since James Boren and Melvin Warren, a favorite of President Lyndon B. Johnson, moved there in the 1960s.
