Apparently Tom Frank never stopped to consider that the good voters of Kansas have morals and don’t necessarily vote for whichever politician promises to steal the most from their neighbors and deliver the booty to them. Or maybe they have brains and understand that egalitarian, redistributionist schemes make us all poorer in the not-to-long run. Or maybe they just don't like one of their main cities being the late-term abortion capital of the world.
There Mr. Frank. Answered your stupid question that took you a whole book to ask in one short paragraph.