In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats\' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump.
A deep look at the Midwest\'s History of Conservative politics, this timely volume reveals how Conservative victories in state houses, legislatures, and national elections in the early twenty-firs.
But the blue wall, as The Conservative Heartland makes clear, was never quite as secure as so many observers assumed.
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats\' so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump