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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
i used to think that minnesota was solidly part of the blue fire wall as well, but hillary only barely squeaked out a win there (1.5%). that was truly surprising to me.
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Minnesota has had by far the longest blue state streak of all, which was true even before Trump managed broke the longer-than-Illinois' blue streak of your northern neighbor Wisconsin.
(Wisconsin, unlike Illinois, never voted for a Bush.)
However, it seems clear that MN's crown is only due to the chance of having been Walter Mondale's home state in Reagan's landslide reelection.
On the other hand, DC is the one true blue stronghold, having voted Dem continuously ever since it started to have electoral votes in 1964! That's the longest streak of all (I believe Utah is 2nd.)