The outstate Midwest — a region I define as the parts of the Midwestern states, plus Pennsylvania, outside metropolitan areas with more than 1 million population — is the region that defeated Hillary Clinton and elected Donald Trump, as I have argued in my Washington Examiner columns.
For more detail, see Dan Balz’s typically insightful analysis in this Sunday’s Washington Post and this excellent analysis of Wisconsin, which Balz references, by Craig Gilbert of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Gilbert has consistently provided more careful and in-depth analysis of election results in his home state than any other reporter I’m familiar with, and he delivers once again here — together with a couple of nifty maps.
