why iowa is turning purple (and may turn blue soon)  this is from a long-time iowan: it's because of governor kim reynolds. she is a staunch tea party republican of the old guard who runs the state like a dictatress. the state government is very corrupt. she is a fiscal conservative but turns a blind eye toward the increasing social liberalism of the state. there are tons of blacks who migrated to iowa from chicago, kansas city, milwaukee, st. louis etc. there are also a shit ton of immigrants here; the local businesses love and prefer them, again, because we have a fiscally conservative government. but iowa is also a gynarchy. anyone whom reynolds ever appoints to a position of power is a woman. women run every office here and are petty as fuck. so reynolds, while being in the mold of a reagan fiscal conservative, is surprisingly feminist. iowa has a giant war chest of cash, but there are never tax breaks for workers or the middle class, only for the wealthy. people here are getting sick of this. cost of living is shooting up but wages aren't rising. homelessness is on every street in the major and medium-sized cities (des moines, ottumwa, davenport, dubuque). iowa has been hard-core republican for like a decade now but we can feel, in this state, the pendulum swinging back. iowa has never been a permanently liberal or conservative state, but always closer to a swing state.
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