For whatever reason, pundits count Missouri as a Southern state, sort of like KY, I think the way the map is drawn is Missouri to West Virginia to Florida to Texas with Maryland disappearing from the fmr “Southern” column.
Gene flippin Carnahan won in MO, the woman is dumb a as rock, and an anti 2nd amendment type as well, yet she won.
Missouri is an interseting State. If you toss out St Louis, it is pretty conservative and fairly reflective of Southern philosophy. Once again, you have a big population urban city (St Louis) which often times tilts the State in the Democrats direction. By the way, St Louis has a reputation of frauulent and crooked elections right behind New orleans and Chicago.