All of us ‘makers’ live in a ring around the ‘takers’. Farm subsidies and such make the outlying areas blue.
Minnesota is such a weird state. If it weren’t for my husband and his family here I’d be looooong gone. I’m a native South Dakotan who finds it frustrating to live amongst the weirdos.
I have a very liberal (and very nice) step-daughter who lives in one of the western suburbs. It’s highly amusing to me to think many of her neighbors might be Republicans.