The Upper Midwest Blues
Ah feel yer pain, Eri. Though I just mentioned the coasts fissioning off, I hadn't forgotten that blue bulge hanging down from Chicago. It's just that I'm not certain which way it'd go, whether it's strongly blue enough to go independent or join a coast, or whether it'll acquiesce and accept a reddish tinge. The more enlightened Reds might notice that without the coasts, what's left has no industrial and little business base, so it might make a pitch for some of that urbanized territory around the Lakes. The Principality of Chicago might find itself sitting pretty, the object of competing geopolitical desires.