Nebraska's more rural than Kansas, and we've been able to fend this sort of thing off. Partly the problem was the passivity of the scientists in Kansas, who let this thing develop into a monster before really getting mobilized against it. And partly it's the much higher proportion of Southern Baptists, who seem to be the most virulenty creationist of all the denominations.
The parochial nature of the movement to change all of science is the funniest aspect of it all. ID may have Behe and Dembski as spokesmen and a headquarters in Seattle, but behind the false front it's all Bible Belt YECs. No matter what a few southern US states and some equally undeveloped areas of Australia do, the rest of the world will continue to do real science. The only issue is whether we get left in the dust.