- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Coaching Changes
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
Why are all those northern Midwest/Great Lakes states so liberal?
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:39 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:39 am
Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. You would think these places would be filled with hunters, outdoorsmen, & hard working people. But they seem to lean very far left, at least the big cities. Is it just too hard to make an honest living up there when it's freezing cold for months at a time so they have to rely on government funding? The south is heavily conservative except for the minority population, the Midwest is conservative, but go a little further north, and it's heavy liberal. I don't get it.
37
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:40 am to theliontamer
Wisconsin and Michigan aren't as liberal as you think, especially WI. And Illinois too for that matter. Chicago runs that state
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:42 am to theliontamer
Scandinavian immigrants, largely Norwegians and Swedes
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:42 am to theliontamer
Rural Illinois is very conservative but Chicago population rules state politics
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:42 am to theliontamer
Name one major metropolitan area that isn't chockful of liberals. That's where a high percentage of the population is centered in those states.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:43 am to theliontamer
Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and unlike the South where the cities are out voted by the rest of the state there’s just enough white guilt in the culture to tip the scale in their favor.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:43 am to theliontamer
quote:compared to the south, they absolutely are
You would think these places would be filled with hunters, outdoorsmen, & hard working people.
quote:southern states are far more reliant on federal funding
Is it just too hard to make an honest living up there when it's freezing cold for months at a time so they have to rely on government funding? The
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 10:45 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:45 am to theliontamer
quote:
Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. You would think these places would be filled with hunters, outdoorsmen, & hard working people. But they seem to lean very far left, at least the big cities. Is it just too hard to make an honest living up there when it's freezing cold for months at a time so they have to rely on government funding? The south is heavily conservative except for the minority population, the Midwest is conservative, but go a little further north, and it's heavy liberal. I don't get it.
It's the big cities. I had a friend that took his family on a trip up the golden coast in California and he said you'd be shocked how blue collar and red lots of NorCal and the places outside the major cities are and that's in a leftist stronghold like California. It just that these cities are so heavily dominated by libs that it skews the rest of the state. Take Wisconsin as another example. Trump carried the overwhelming majority of that state outside of a few heavily blue dots in the major cities.
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 10:47 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:46 am to theliontamer
quote:
Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. You would think these places would be filled with hunters, outdoorsmen, & hard working people. But they seem to lean very far left, at least the big cities. Is it just too hard to make an honest living up there when it's freezing cold for months at a time so they have to rely on government funding? The south is heavily conservative except for the minority population, the Midwest is conservative, but go a little further north, and it's heavy liberal. I don't get it.
They drink too much and aren’t Catholic
Dead serious.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:47 am to vl100butch
quote:
Scandinavian immigrants, largely Norwegians and Swedes
Are these folks really liberal? I’m not sure, just asking. I figured those agendas were pushed by minorities that have come over in more recent decades.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:47 am to vl100butch
quote:
Scandinavian immigrants, largely Norwegians and Swedes
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:48 am to Lexis Dad
quote:
Chicago runs that state
Explains a lot.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:49 am to theliontamer
quote:
Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin.
It's only the major cities. Which is magnified in the media.
This is common for all of the country. Liberals figured out a long time ago they had to give up their plantations, but they could keep their slaves in inner cities as long as they kept them 1) poor, 2) uneducated, and 3) dependent on the misally free stuff they hand out to them to keep them voting D.
This is how they control the country. Densely packed poor inner cities.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:51 am to theliontamer
I find that several Midwest states are actually more libertarian than liberal or conservative.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:51 am to Snipe
Magnified in the media.... yet thats where most people live this is such a dumb*** take
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:52 am to theliontamer
In the case of Minnesota, it has been a byproduct of historical labor movements.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:53 am to c on z
Imagine being black and living in the same city as c on z, who actively wants you back on cotton farms.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:57 am to theliontamer
"Scandanavia" is always the most common answer always thrown out there, but that might be lazy and not take into account that Lutherans outnumber Baptists around there 5-to-1, and you can drive around Minneapolis for hours without seeing a white Baptist church.
Minnesota never got on board with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority and the Reagan Revolution, which largely still shapes how states vote today.
In other words, there are a ton of Mainline Protestants and very few Baptists.
Minnesota never got on board with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority and the Reagan Revolution, which largely still shapes how states vote today.
In other words, there are a ton of Mainline Protestants and very few Baptists.
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 11:00 am
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:58 am to theliontamer
They actually aren’t at all outside the big cities
Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:01 am to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
you can drive around Minneapolis for hours without seeing a white Baptist church.
That’s a bad thing?
Page 1 of 4
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News