Even Columbia (I live about 20 minutes North) isn’t too liberal outside of the University doofuses and liberal city government people. Lots of Dixiecrats around here, too—but that genre is fading. Anywhere on the outskirts of Columbia is staunchly conservative. I think Boone County went like 51-49 D/R in the last presidential election. I assume you live somewhere South of me—which is reliably conservative.
Lake of the Ozarks.
Before that, Minnesota.
We took our Yankee money and moved south.
Boone went 50%-47% for Zero in 2012. As it was, there were only 3 counties (Boone, Jackson’s Kansas City and St. Louis) along with StL City to vote for Zero in 2012.