My family is from Iowa. All my cousins are a bunch of Farm Socialists in the mold of Gus Hall...except possibly one cousin who owns a Painting business.
Here in Texas in the deepest and richest farmland farmers vote for RATS because they deliver a population supplied with food stamps to increase farm sales. Otherwise completely conservative people.
Iowa holds the ethanol test over every R presidential candidate. They make R candidates dance, shuck and jive, then probably vote RAT behind the curtain. Take them out of the damn opening season, along with New Hampshire.