I intend to develop this into a post on what-if-sparsely-populated-states-become-comfortable-and-a-bit-liberal-what-would-that-look-like-maybe-its-not-beyond-the-realm-of-possibility and the how the way we vote really has to do with the stories we tell ourselves about evil capitalists and welfare queens and hardworking family farmers and cetera, but on the off chance I get distracted by more shiny, here’s the basic post:

Source: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-horrible-2018-senate-map-couldnt-have-come-at-a-better-time/