The great Midwest populist election that historians have speculated over since after the Civil War finally became a reality when Donald Trump was elected to become the country’s 45th president.

It was a race that stunned pundits, reporters, the stock market and elites as solidly blue-states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — who all went big for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012 — fell like dominoes for the Republican nominee.