Rural counties went for Kobach. The counties he lost are the ones where Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Emporia, Pittsbugh, Manhattan, and the KC suburbs are.
Rush has been talking about how the large urban areas are islands of blue in seas of red. I think the solution is to go back to having city states. Let the big cities be on their own and the rest of us will go our own way.
See the book, The Sovereign Individual by Davidson and Rees-Mogg. They predict the large nation states will fall apart and new (often old) forms of government will come about. It won’t be a pretty divorce, though.