Perhaps Kansas is more complex an organism than reported by the media.
Evolutions Backers in Kansas Mount a Counterattack
Moderates hope to gain seats on the State Board of Education and reverse teaching standards that challenge evolution.Less than a year after a conservative Republican majority on the State Board of Education adopted rules for teaching science containing one of the broadest challenges in the nation to Darwin’s theory of evolution, moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack. They want to retake power and switch the standards back to what they call conventional science.
Like the Red Blue state metaphor, state-level politics and culture are not monolithic.
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I do hope the decision not to teach evolution is reversed in Kansas. It makes the US a mockery of the developed countries.