A historically Democratic district, Morano was seen as having the best potential opportunity to pick off an incumbent state Senator in the 2002 cycle.

Although Midland was historically Democratic, in recent years it has become heavily Republican.

For the first time ever, a full Republican slate filed for all municipal positions in the historically Democratic city.

He won three consecutive elections to the U.S. House from an historically Democratic district.

The district has been historically Democratic.

The county is historically Democratic.

Republicans say they want to balance the budget in 2002 by reducing spending on historically Democratic efforts like Medicare, Medicaid and farm programs.

The combined Democratic candidates polled 98 percent of the primary vote in the historically Democratic city and parish.

But Ms. Richards overwhelmingly carried the historically Democratic minority vote.

Mr. Bush is seizing the offensive and plans to advertise and campaign in historically Democratic states.