Complex sentence: Politically, the district leans Republican, although it contains almost an equal number of registered Democrats and Republicans; the largely rural population is more akin to the South than the more urbanized Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
Split into simpler sentences: Politically, the district leans Republican, despite the fact that the number of registered Democrats and Republicans are even. The largely rural population is more akin to the South than the more urbanized Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.