Having lived in Indiana in the 1960s, I tend to agree with Ari.
Indiana would send left-wing senators like Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh (rhymes with “Search High”) to Washington, while remaining basically conservative, even in Naptown. Kind of schizophrenic.
The Indianapolis Star (and, News?)was conservative and gave candidate Lyndon Johnson headaches when he was running for president. It also hated the Kennedys. Remnember, the right-wing John Birch Society was founded in Indiana.
The northwest Chicago suburbs, Indianapolis, and probably Bloomington will remain democrat machine.
But, once you get out of the pollution and into corn country where many small high-tech industries, around West Lafayette and Bloomington for example have opened..those folks work for a living, and do well.
