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Originally Posted by Docere
So Illinois outside Chicagoland is basically Indiana.
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Illinois and indiana outside of chicagoland and metro Indy are very similar. Deep red cornfields sprinkled with a handful of blue college towns.
The difference is that chicagoland is 5x the size of metro indy and thus completely overwhelms downstate illinois in a way that indy can't do to indiana.
not to mention the fact that metro indy itself is a lot more purple overall than chicagoland is, so it starts with less power to counterbalance the farm vote, regardless of size.