By Joe Wicke
ANNAPOLIS — When many Marylanders go to the polls this fall, they are not likely to cast their ballots in competitive races for the State House — and experts say that has long been the case in the largely Democratic state.
“Maryland has been a one-party state really since the Civil War,” said Matthew Burger, an assistant professor of political science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. “The politics of each party has changed somewhat since the Civil War, obviously, but Maryland is a dominant blue state.”
The Democratic Party’s dominance is concentrated in the heavily populated
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