There is rather too much POV in the Politics section. (It incorrectly links conservatism to the KKK, fundamentalism and farming.  Well, no. The KKK died out pretty fast. Farming took longer but it's mostly gone, and the farmers never were conservative.  The state's religion is not especially fundamentalistic.  In fact the state is competitive and leans Republican, apart from presidential elections. (When the state was agrarian, those presidential elections were very close indeed). I suggest the GOP tilt in the north comes from the German element, which switched to the GOP when local hero Willkie ran in 1940.