A bellwether is a leader or an indicator of trends."bellwether." Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved 2022-01-22. In politics, the term often applies in a metaphorical sense to characterize a geographic region where political tendencies match in microcosm those of a wider area, such that the result of an election in the former region might predict the eventual result in the latter. In economics, a 'bellwether' is a leading indicator of an economic trend. Sociologists apply the term in... more
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