This has got to be a joke column, right? No one can really be this disoriented.
Dumb putz! I'm from Kansas. It's been Republican forever. It's Republican because Kansans are honest hardworking people. They don't believe in handouts. They view slackers as louts Kansas would be better without. They don't have much use for shitheads like this author.
I don't know why the author dragged Ann into it, but Thomas Frank is a realy liberal butt-head. His thesis is that people (conservatives) who don't vote for the party that promises them the most govt handouts are stupid.