This is the sort of map the democrats have to pull off to win NE:
(51-49 senate victory from 2000)
I doubt the map would look like that nowadays. Sarpy County would vote Democratic, and I think a lot of those rural counties would vote Republican.
In order to win Nebraska, Democrats would have to win some rural counties. Not enough urban vote in the state to do it on urban areas alone.
Actually Douglas, Lancaster, and Sarpy counties together make up ~53% of the state's population.
It's that the western part of the state votes SOOO Republican and the eastern urban areas just have small Dem leans that makes Nebraska so hard for Democrats to win statewide.