Kansas is not on track to become the next Colorado, it's on track to become the next Indiana: a mostly Republican state that has a small chance of flipping in a landslide election (2008, in Indiana's case).
The Democrats have become stronger in Kansas in recent years for these reasons:
1. Backlash against Brownback (and others - Kobach, etc)
2. Growing diversity in the southwest part of the state. The most diverse municipality in Kansas is not in the KC or Wichita metros, it's Garden City. Since the 1980s, successive waves of immigration have hit the area, first from Southeast Asia, then Somalia, and more recently Mexico and Central America.
3. The suburban realignment is beginning to properly kick in in the Kansas City area. Johnson County has trended strongly toward the Democrats in recent years, and I would not be surprised to see Biden win the county, or at least come very close, this November.
Don’t those immigrants not vote though? Like Ford and Seward counties are heavily minority yet titanium R.
