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sgf-guy t1_ivn9kzf wrote

I heard a few months ago, on clearly politically conservative KWTO, the admittance that Springfield is becoming more blue and Joplin more red. I’m very experienced in both places.

KC/STL and a lot of Boone Co are blue. Rich folks with means for a lot of KC/STL and then educational left in MU country. I see SGF as people benefiting from a good economy where money comes easy.

But half the suburbs of KC and STL with average people are down to earth folks with families who vote right overall. Half the state is in small towns or rural.

Republican politicians now don’t care about weed. Maybe as a source of tax income but beyond true evangelicals they don’t care .

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master-shake69 t1_ivnsrfr wrote

If you look at the map for the senate race, Greene county is red. Springfield itself is likely blue but the county has a lot of small towns that likely vote R.

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CartographerLow6788 t1_ivotfvp wrote

Springfield got gerrymandered pretty hard on those state house races. Split up msu area and downtown just enough to eke out 1 more victory and nearly two.

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