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Much of the upper Midwest white progressive populism that you find in Minnesota can also be found in Iowa.

I lived in both states for about ten years.

Very nice people, hard working, often quite religious.

But there is a significant percentage that will not even consider voting for Republicans.

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Very nice people, hard working, often quite religious.

But there is a significant percentage that will not even consider voting for Republicans.

That's Scott County, where I live -- to a T. Lotta working class blue collar Catholic Democrats, who have since FDR voted D, thinking them to be still the party of the working man. Also, lotta Holder's people, especially in certain pronounced neighborhoods of Davenport.

Even so, I voted R/R.