Just looking at Johnson County, Kansas for example. Its a very wealthy County that Democrats last won on the presidential level in 1916. Yet Kevin Yoder lost it in the House race. Kris Kobach lost it in the Gubernatorial race. Almost all the downballot statewide Republicans lost it as well. The Republican Party is quite clearly the party that favors wealthy people, so it hardly makes sense how they did so poorly in places like this. Not that I am complaining (wealthy people who vote against their own economic interests are only hurting themselves, and they are helping other people) but it does seem rather strange.
Economics are not the only thing people vote on. To top that off, in the case of Johnson County, you tend to have a higher than average college graduate rate, which has gone hard against the GOP in recent years. The economic policies of Brownback administration caused severe budget issues in the state. Nor to mention if you are talking about taxes, the difference in taxes for the middle and upper-middle class was only marginal. Those at the very top received the vast majority of the benefit. Even in areas such as Johnson County, that will only be a very small portion of the population, that is receiving the majority of the cuts.
