"Steve King Thinks Im a Threat to American Civilization."

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14. King's district (like most of Iowa) is very white.

It is not, however, gerrymandered. Iowa uses an independent commission to redraw electoral districts. King's fourth district is geographically the largest, because it is the most rural. Only two cities of any size are in the district: Ames and Sioux City.

As others in the thread have pointed out, western Iowa is very conservative. I call it Nebraska East. The liberal bastions of Ames (Iowa State University) and (to a lesser extent) Sioux City aren't enough to cancel out the overwhelming majority of far right voters in the rest of the district. If they found a Democrat in Lyon or Sioux (Sioux City is in Woodbury County) Counties they would probably stone him.