Talk:Kansas

You know, there's that one scene in B&I where Roosevelt goes to Kansas and talks about how wonderfully Democratic it is, but in later books we're told with some regularly that Kansas is a Republican stronghold. It's anything but unheard of for a state to go from a strong supporter of one party to a strong supporter of another over the course of several election cycles. It's much rarer for a state to go from consistently supporting a party that remains a strong contender to consistently supporting a DOA party. If one year it had suddenly looked like the Republicans were going to be A-list again, it might make sense for Kansas to lead the charge; but once that tide receded, surely Kansas would recede with it. The only way I can see a state as a GOP stronghold in 191 is if it had been so in the nineteenth century and never did give up on that commitment, like the Solid South's support of the ever-less Dixiecratic Democrats from the end of Reconstruction all the way up through 1948. Turtle Fan 15:30, August 13, 2010 (UTC)