My point was to make clear that Kansas state Republicans have a long history of division. This isn’t like Texas Republicans where a vast conservative leaning majority battle with a 20 percent moderate faction and most always win. Kansas has old-line “Main Street” or mercantile Republican moderates who don’t hold critical issues like Pro-Life central to their Republican member ship.
Kansas has had Democrat Governors off and on for fifty years due to that fairly even split and lack of unity. That is a plain fact. I have met all of those from 1967 through ding dong Sebielius. Out of the last nine Governors in a state that always goes Republican in the national election, five of the nine have been Democrats and this disunity due to blooding fighting is the reason why.
I completely agree with your observations. You clearly understand this quite well.