Kansas is nothing more than a symbol here, so never mind the vagarancies of Kansas per se. Maybe there is something to the thesis of What’s the Matter With Kansas, but the corallary question is: What’s up with Massachusetts? (and Massachusetts is, like Kansas, nothing more than a symbol.)

First, flip the “blue and red” that’s been drummed into your head. Only recently has the news media decided to designate the Democrats as “blue” and the Republicans as “red”. In the case of the maps, stolen from http://uselectionatlas.org, the red is Democrat and the blue is Republican.

The electoral map for 1896. McKinnley is the classic model for corporate whore president; William Jennings Bryan is the avowed “populist.”:

The electoral map for 2000. Bush v. Gore.:

And, just for the hell of it, the electoral map for 1936:

And the electoral map for 1972:

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