It seems to me that, generally speaking, that area of the country, not just Iowa but other surrounding states as well, either elect democrats in elections or really screwball republicans like john boner and paul ryan and john kasich.
Well trumps Iowa strategery is to round up rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, ****-kickers and Methodists.