I live in the St. Louis metro area, a.k.a., the Bi-State Area, so dubbed for the expanded market’s position straddling the Mississippi River, mostly in Missouri (where the anchor city resides) but with a growing portion of the DMA’s population in Illinois.
My pedestrian advice to frustrated Republicans in this area was published on the op-ed page of today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. For what it’s worth …