I lived for three years in South Bend and spent a fair amount of time hunting, fishing and skiing all over Michigan. My sense of Michigan was that if you excised Detroit, Ann Arbor and Benton Harlem for the state, it would be a very conservative place.
Cut off the top third of Ohio, and the real (rest of) Ohio resembles Tennessee with the exception of inner-city Columbus.
Now that we’re kicking the unions in the teeth I’m hoping we can get to a point where we attract some more conservatives to the state and solidify our grip.
Its a real sportsman’s paradise outside the cities.