old timey villain
cope1989
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« on: July 03, 2012, 01:28:26 PM » |
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I believe I posted about this very question a while ago.
Indiana is, in my opinion, kind of strange in that it's a (mostly) red state surrounded by swing and blue states. My theory is that it's a state in the Midwest that historically, didn't take part in many of the trends that shaped the politics of the Midwest.
- It has no large cosmopolitan city like Illinois
- No large black population like in Michigan
- Not as many unionized manufacturing workers like in Ohio
- No large progressive Scandinavian immigrant population like in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Indiana is the best example today of what the Midwest might have looked like before movements like the great migration and the Rustbelt industrial boom shaped the region. It's a state where most people still claim German, protestant ancestry, full of small towns and farmers. Which, as someone said, was an original base of the Republican party.
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