Use a waterhose and soap on Lawrence, and chase the feral entitlement zombies out of Topeka and Wichita, and Kansas would be more conservative than a John Birch convention.
Hell you could look at practically any election map and if you see a little blue dot in a sea of red. You can bet your bottom dollar that their is a University there.
Either that or Major Cities, that is why Jefferson abhorred them. A vast swath of non self reliant people susceptible to Class War rhetoric.