> Illinois tilts strongly to the left above I-80, so outside of a few rural western or southern counties, this is an immaterial policy change. I think this is

> Illinois tilts strongly to the left above I-80, so outside of a few rural western or southern counties, this is an immaterial policy change. I think this is actually far less true today than it once was. Yes, Chicago alone makes IL a blue state, but outside Chicago it's not so clear anymore - even north of i80. It's been rather jarring on my last few visits back home to the West Chicago suburbs. We used to joke about the i80 boundary separating the yokels from regular people. Now I encounter plenty of overt right-wingers without even going south of i88. Just the gun craze alone has converted a lot of people IMO. Concealed carry and little NO PARKING style gun stickers on business entrances everywhere becoming normalized in the state I'm sure has played a role here. It's a totally different culture of no-flag-too-big and they'll-take-your-guns vs. what I grew up in.