Let them have it.
You have to have a voice. How can you change minds without a voice? Your kind of thinking is why you'll never get a majority.
Let them have it.
With that line of thinking, you might as well just surrender the country to socialism right now. The Republicans are dooming themselves if they decide to write off entire chunks of the country as you appear willing to do. The Democrats don't give up as easily. They go into Republican strongholds all the time and give it their best shot. Sometimes they even win which is why we now have Democrats elected in such conservative bastions as Oklahoma, Texas and Nevada. In fact, both North and South Dakota voted for Bush/Cheney in 2000 and generally vote Republican in all presidential elections, but ALL FOUR senators from those two states are Democrats. Why? Because the Democrats don't have the "give up and surrender" mentality that the Republicans have thanks to folks like you.
There is a large population of people up here that do not vote Democrat, cannot move and do not like the dissing this state keeps getting from uninformed and ignorant individuals. I am one of them. SamAdams76 is another.
And the ref made the right call. Incomplete pass.