Minnesota also gets me. I guess in the north-east area it is still the background of the union miners that gets passed down through the generations. And the south and west is the farmers with their Federal crop subsidies? Just seems odd though, as the people that I have met in the rural parts of Minnesota are pro-gun, anti-baby killing and anti gay marriage types.
But I guess the promise of continued subsidies, and “Well, Papa always voted DFL...”
We still have those in the South...the yellow dog Dems “my grandpappy voted Demorcrat, my daddy voted Democrat”.