Title: Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018? | Minnesota Monthly
Headings: Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018?
Is Minnesota a Red or Blue State in 2018?
From Nonpartisan to Polarized
Hillary’s Purple-State Blues
What Is Changing?
What Has Remained?
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Content: Outstate populations, meanwhile, are shrinking, aging, and more likely to vote Republican. They’re also more likely to vote; older white voters have proven the country’s most reliable. So, Minnesota’s fast-aging population could mean a stronger GOP electorate in the short term. What Has Remained? Demographics, though, are not destiny—as Trump’s win in a growingly diverse country proved—and amid decades-long trends, some argue less has changed than Minnesota’s electoral map might suggest. On the hyper-local level, counties and cities throughout the state still hold nonpartisan contests. Enter Tom Stiehm: Since 2006, Stiehm has served as mayor of Austin, the seat of southern Minnesota’s Mower County, where Trump’s impact shows. Mower had voted blue in every presidential election since 1964—longer than Minnesota as a whole.