Has Kansas had a recent influx of transplants (i.e. Liberal Locusts) from Colorado or California?
Some Calis and Colorado folks but only to Johnson Co. Lawrence is hopelessly far left. But even our south central cousins in Cowly county are anti Kobach.
Some if the formerly nice apartment complexes looked to have Gone Section 8 from what I could tell in Joco
I will give you my two cents on the history as I lived there or one county out for over sixty years.
Kansas has Lawrence with a Free State solid Republican heritage until liberal university climate began to dominate and Douglas county along with Wyandotte (KC, KS) and Sedgwick (Wichita) began to go Democratic.
Kansas was Eisenhower country. Old main street agricultural leanings with a strong sense of do your duty that kept it out of the America First isolationism crowd. Arch conservatism did not get traction with the William Buckley crowd but instead, with the Pro Life movement. The Republican Party became so divided with a Pro Life faction functioning as a single-issue group and the rest of the Party being more a main street mercantile/Ag group that they did not work together in the 70s.
I had one Governor’s son as a buddy. I have been in Alf Landon’s home. I grew up in Johnson County when it was one of the most comfortable suburban counties in the nation. Johnson County was a swing county. I passed out fliers for Goldwater in the 64 election as a YAF kid and felt that the suburban middle aged people were not seeing what was on the horizon.
The Brownback dedication to cutting taxes when the state was already running in the red was idiotic for the Obama Depression economy, IMHO.